Search Results - "American Dream"
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A marxist reading on the disintegration of American families in Sam Sherpard's true west and curse of the starving class
Published 2015“…Capitalist ideology wants the public to believe that the American Dream is still alive and attainable. Objective three is to explore the capitalist ideology which is inherent in the characters’ behaviours to argue for a distorted American Dream. …”
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When Barthes meets Ben: Barthesian semiologies in selected short stories of Bienvenido N. Santos (BNS)
Published 2024“…In realizing this American Dream, there is a hegemonic group that imposes its norms on the citizens of one of its former colonies. …”
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Sam Shepard and the “Familial Maze”: possible worlds theory in Buried Child
Published 2017“…Shepard is also centrally concerned with American (popular) culture and its underlying myths, hence the prominence of the theme of American Dream in his oeuvre. As such, the projection of the characters’ wish worlds is central in Shepard's play. …”
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A psychosocial study of identity in selected novels of Ballard and Thompson
Published 2013“…Thompson, depicts the lives of two friends who head to Las Vegas, to cover a motor race report but in fact they seek their American Dream. Both novels are basically representations of a group of people who attempt to escape the world that they live in, to search for a new identity. …”
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