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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11635869.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "1. The Shocks of Transplantation -- 2. Mythical Innocence -- 3. Yearning for Lost Civilization -- 4. Seeking Spiritual Reality -- 5. The Fragility of Democracy -- 6. Demonic Visions -- 7. Liberating the Land of Freedom -- 8. Small Is Beautiful -- 9. The Failure of the Dream in Fiction.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "359 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "American dream, American nightmare.".
- catalog identifier "0252025563 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "American dream, American nightmare.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "American dream, American nightmare.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.5409 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Disappointment in literature.".
- catalog subject "Economics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Failure (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Loss (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.F24 H86 2000".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Success in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Shocks of Transplantation -- 2. Mythical Innocence -- 3. Yearning for Lost Civilization -- 4. Seeking Spiritual Reality -- 5. The Fragility of Democracy -- 6. Demonic Visions -- 7. Liberating the Land of Freedom -- 8. Small Is Beautiful -- 9. The Failure of the Dream in Fiction.".
- catalog title "American dream, American nightmare : fiction since 1960 / Kathryn Hume.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".