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"Get your map of America": Tempering dystopia and learning topography. in The Plot Against America.

Ever since Neil Klugman speculated in the opening pages of Goodbye, Columbus (1959) that the drive up to the hills of the Newark suburbs might bring one "closer to heaven," Philip Roth has made the frustration of longings for utopia one of his major themes. (1) Especially since his American trilogy, Roth's critics have been rightly preoccupied with his application of anti-utopian and anti-pastoral thinking to increasingly large swaths of American history, his critique of what Ross Posnock identifies as his characters' drive to "exist in a mythic yesteryear, creating a national fantasy." (2) The American trilogy critiques a postwar cast of, as Murray says in I Married a ...

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