Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits: The Other America
- Author: Tedde, Adriano A.
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Contents
- Part I : The Other America
- 1. The Democratic Dream. A traditional social critique in America
- 2. American Fringe: The works of Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits
- Part II : The American Dream
- 3. Road to nothing: The road book, the road movie, the road song and the use of American myths in Auster, Jarmusch and Waits
- 9. Surviving in the Other America: Hope and the comfort of humanity
- Part III : The Democratic Hero
- 5. The needs of the body: Depictions of street life, wasteland, and downward mobility amid the culture of wealth
- 6. The needs of the soul: Failure and adoption of simplicity amid the culture of success
- Part IV : The Enemy of Conventional Society
- 7. The neoliberal age: Facing crisis and decline from Ronald to Donald
- 8. Art as resistance: A utopian alternative in the age of consumerism, greed, and selfishness