Advisory Committee Chair
Jamez Braziel
Advisory Committee Members
Kerry Madden
Sue Kim
Mary Whall
Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2011
Degree Name by School
Master of Arts (MA) College of Arts and Sciences
Abstract
"Nobody Knows How It Got This Good" is a collection of three interlocked short stories set in Birmingham, Alabama. Drawing heavily upon urbanism, economics, Marxism and Birmingham's social and urban history, as well as a varied literary tradition including authors as diverse as James Joyce and Barry Hannah, these lyrical narratives aspire to universal themes and concerns by exploring the particularity of place and subjective experience. The first story, "The Jaguars of Southtown," is narrated by a used car salesman. "Wells Fargo" is narrated by an executive investment banker on the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash and "Tilting at Windmills" by a safety engineer who experiences a horrific industrial accident at the Powell Avenue Plant.
Recommended Citation
Wright, Amos Jasper, "Nobody Knows How It Got This Good" (2011). All ETDs from UAB. 3380.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/3380