Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams

In Exploded View "graphic" essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how...
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Author: Dustin Parsons
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Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams by Parsons, Dustin

Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams

$52.28

Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams

$52.28
Author: Dustin Parsons
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In Exploded View "graphic" essays play with the conventions of telling a life story and with how illustration and text work together in print. As with a graphic novel, the story is not only in the text but also in how that text interacts with the images that accompany it.

Diagrams were an important part of Dustin Parsons's childhood. Parsons's father was an oilfield mechanic, and in his spare time he was also a woodworker, an automotive mechanic, a welder, and an artist. His shop had countless manuals with "exploded view" parts directories that the young Parsons flipped through constantly. Whether rebuilding a transmission, putting together a diesel engine, or assembling a baby cradle, his father had a visual guide to help him. In these essays, Parsons uses the same approach to understanding his father as he navigates the world of raising two young biracial boys.

This memoir distinguishes itself from others in its "graphic" elements--the appropriated diagrams, instructions, and "exploded view" inventory images--that Parsons has used. They help guide the reader's understanding of the piece, giving them a visual anchor for the story, and add a technical aspect to the lyric essays that they hold. This mixture of the machine-like and the lyrical helps the reader understand the author's world more fully--a world where art comes in the form of a welding torch, where creativity involves finding new ways to use old machines, and where delineating between right-brain and left-brain thinking isn't so easy.

Author: Dustin Parsons
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 03/15/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 6.79h x 7.74w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780820352879

About the Author
Dustin Parsons teaches at the University of Mississippi. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant for creative nonfiction, an American Literary Review prize for fiction, and a Laurel Review prize for fiction.

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