Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film

How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic?...
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Author: Daniel Shaviro
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Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film by Shaviro, Daniel

Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film

CHF 63.67

Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film

CHF 63.67
Author: Daniel Shaviro
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, tensions rise between our egalitarian and democratic traditions on the one hand, and what we often call the "American Dream" of self-advancement and due reward on the other.

In our current Second Gilded Age, as in the first one from the late nineteenth century, the results of economic competition appear to suggest, falsely, that some of us are "winners" who deserve everything they have, while others are contemptible "losers." The rich ostensibly owe the poor nothing - not even compassion or respect, and certainly not material aid through government.

In Bonfires of the American Dream, Daniel Shaviro develops these themes through close studies, in social context, of such classic novels and films as Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He thereby helps to provide a better understanding of what, apart from racism, has in recent years caused things to go so wrong culturally in America.



Author: Daniel Shaviro
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781839983825


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2022

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