Full Description
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically sustainable foundations.
Contents
Chapter 1: The American Dream and Dreams of the Americas
Chapter 2: Embattled Dreams, Memory, and the American Iliad
Chapter 3: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Chapter 4: Another California, Another Country, Another World?
Chapter 5: The Beautiful Dreams and Nightmares that America Bears
