Date of Award
2010
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
Sub-Department
English
First Advisor
Janette T. Hospital
Abstract
Kickaround Nixon (And Other Stories) is a collection made up of four short stories and a novel excerpt. The short stories attempt to systematize the engagement of the individual narrators with their worlds. The novel excerpt--the Kickaround Nixon of Kickaround Nixon (And Other Stories)--is a fictional account of the 1983 U.S. National Videogame Tournament. The novel takes much of its structure from Melville's Moby-Dick, but with the characters of Ishmael and Ahab switched position-wise to better mesh with the zeitgeist of the 1980s. Moreover, the novel attempts to explore the subjects of homosexuality, potentiality spaces, history, and the Information Age.
Rights
© 2010, Eric Lockaby
Recommended Citation
Lockaby, E.(2010). Kickaround Nixon. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/365