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CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

Author(s): Alina Andreea Dragoescu Urlica
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: American dream; colonial; deconstruction; myth; narrative

Summary/Abstract: The paper traces the American dream as the core of American mythology, underpinning the experiment of achieving a dreamland. There is more than one American dream to consider, as it has taken many shapes since the ‘invention’ of the ‘New World’. Therefore, the American myth is undercut by an inherent self-deconstructive proclivity from the beginning.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 179-188
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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