Liberation Dreamin' (A Good Time Holiday Eight-Track
Liberation dreamin’ (a good time holiday eight-track for the real American) Item Type Thesis Authors Sanders, Craig S. Download date 27/09/2021 19:59:27 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6644 LIBERATION DREAMIN’ (A GOOD TIME HOLIDAY EIGHT-TRACK FOR THE REAL AMERICAN) By Craig Sanders RECOMMENDED: Jennifer S c h ^ PhD Daryl Farmer, PhD Geraldine Brighjw^lIfFfiD1 Advisory Committee Chair Richard Carr, PhD Chair, Department of English APPROVED: LIBERATION DREAMIN’ (A GOOD TIME HOLIDAY EIGHT-TRACK FOR THE REAL AMERICAN) A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS By Craig Sanders, B.FA./B.A. Fairbanks, AK May 2016 Abstract The eight short stories that make up Liberation Dreamin’ follow protagonists who yearn to be heroes, saviors, caretakers, and liberators. These are characters fueled by the power of metaphor, lost in the idea of America as they expose the fabulism of reality itself through their absurd attempts to realize their often idealistic wishes and longings. They hunt treasure in the forest of northwestern Pennsylvania, shoot hot air balloons out of the sky, run major celebrities down with their cars on nights of blinded judgment, and even kidnap roadrunners. They stage protests for bigots’ funerals, wage strange wars with dairy farm animals, have misguided epiphanies in checkout lanes, and write urgent letters to Santa Claus himself. These pieces seek to render the biblical commonplace and highlight the profundities of everyday trivialities. As is suggested by the collection’s parenthetical subtitle,A Good Time Holiday Eight-Track for the Real American, these are stories that strive to be musical.
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