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题名/责任者:

The American dream and dreams deferred : a dialectical fairy tale / Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer.

出版发行项:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2023

ISBN:

9781793634115 :

载体形态项:

x, 313 pages ; 24 cm

变异题名:

Dialectical fairy tale

个人责任者:

Floyd, Carlton D., author.

附加个人名称:

Reifer, Thomas Ehrlich, author.

论题主题:

American Dream in literature.

论题主题:

National characteristics, American, in literature.

地理名称主题:

United States-Civilization.

中图法分类号:

I712.06

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

Introduction : the American dream : a dialectical fairy tale -- The American dream and dreams of the Americas -- Embattled dreams, memory, and the American Iliad -- What happens to a dream deferred? -- Another California, another country, another world? -- The beautiful dreams and nightmares that America bears -- Conclusion : black to the future?

摘要附注:

"This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price"--

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