Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism
upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at
the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a
vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the
American ideals of god, home, and country. But for those like Jessa
Crispin who have grown up in Kansas, the realities are much
harsher. She argues that the Midwestern values we cling to cover up
a long history of oppression and control over Native Americans,
women, and the economically disadvantaged. Blending personal
narrative with social commentary, Crispin meditates on why the
American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in our country's
mythic self-image. Ranging from The Wizard of Oz to race, from
chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots
to Utopian communities, My Three Dads opens on a comic scene in a
Kansas rent house the author shares with a (masculine) ghost. This
prompts Crispin to think about her intellectual fathers, her
spiritual fathers, and her literal fathers. She is curious to
understand what she has learned from them and what she needs to
unlearn about how a person should be in a family, as a citizen, and
as a child of god-ideals, Crispin argues, that have been
established and reproduced in service to hierarchy, oppression, and
wealth. Written in Crispin's well-honed voice-smart, assured,
comfortable with darkness-My Three Dads offers a kind of bleak
redemption, the insight that no matter where you go, no matter how
far from home you roam, the place you came from is always with you,
"like it or not."
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