عنوان

American dream, American nightmare :

0252025563

9780252025563

American dream, American nightmare :

[Book]

fiction since 1960 /

Kathryn Hume.

Urbana :

University of Illinois Press,

©2000.

359 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index.

"Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream." "In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo." "Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life."--Jacket.

American dream, American nightmare.

American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Disappointment in literature.

Economics in literature.

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Psychological fiction, American-- History and criticism.

Success in literature.

Américains dans la littérature.

Déception dans la littérature.

Échec dans la littérature.

Économie politique dans la littérature.

Littérature et société-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.

Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature.

Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.

Roman psychologique américain-- Histoire et critique.

Succès dans la littérature.

American fiction.

Amerikaans.

Disappointment in literature.

Economics in literature.

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

Fictie.

Geschichte (1960-1990)

Geschichte 1960-2000.

Literature and society.

Loss (Psychology) in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Psychological fiction, American.

Roman.

Success in literature.

United States.

USA.

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