American Dream and Dreams Deferred - A Dialectical Fairy Tale

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The American Dream and Dreams of the Americas
Chapter 2: Embattled Dreams, Memory, and the American Iliad
Chapter 3: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Chapter 4: Another California, Another Country, Another World?
Chapter 5: The Beautiful Dreams and Nightmares that America Bears

About the author

By Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

Product details

• Authors: Carlton D Floyd, Carlton D. Floyd, Carlton D. Reifer Floyd, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781793634139
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-413-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General