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Article: American Dream: American Nightmare--Fiction Since 1960. (Essay-review: "extreme specialization" and the broad highway: approaching contemporary American fiction).
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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Kathryn Hume. American Dream: American Nightmare--Fiction Since 1960 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000). 359 pp. $39.95 cloth.
American fiction has been transformed radically since the middle of the twentieth century. The literary canon, the university syllabus, the publishing record, and the general horizon of expectations of American readers have expanded from what might be described as a one-lane road of mainly white male writers of European descent to a broad highway with a good sixteen lanes of ethnic, cultural and sexual diversity. Voices from the margins have emerged, questioning, deconstructing, contesting, and deterritorializing the ...