PHENOMENON OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN PERCIVAL EVERETT’S NOVELS
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https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2018.171821Keywords:
Percival Everett, American Dream, American way of life, American tragedy, self-made perAbstract
Abstract.The article deals with two mostly well-known novels American Desert and I Am Not Sidney Poitier
by Percival Everett. Nowadays he is one of the most accomplished and prolific American writers and belongs to a “new” generation of black writers. In his novels the author addresses the phenomenon of the American Dream which is one of the most widespread themes in the literature of the USA in the XX-XXI centuries. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that the novels are based on the same plot structure demonstrating the compelling impact of this phenomenon on the protagonists’ lives. The main aim of appealing to the phenomenon is to present author’s views upon this question, to give the way of its new interpretation, to discuss the related problems of American society. The writer also presents the transformation of the phenomenon of the American Dream into American tragedy. This way of
interpretation is based on postmodernist aesthetics mostly.
Key words: Percival Everett, American Dream, American way of life, American tragedy, self-made per
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