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T1 American Dreams and Nightmares: Migration and Myth in Claude McKay's Twentieth-Century American Poetry
A1 Van Nyhuis, Alison
K1 literatura americana
K1 literatura caribeña
K1 Claude McKay
K1 Renacimiento de Harlem
K1 emigración
K1 mito
K1 poesía
K1 poesía política
K1 literatura del siglo XX
AB Literary critics have narrated Claude McKay’s early-twentieth-century Jamaican American migration in terms of a popular conceptualization of the American dream. This essay analyzes the ways in which McKay wrote in terms of and against the popular rhetorical tropes of the American dream and the American nightmare, especially in poetry submitted to and published by American editors, magazines, journals, and presses. In effect, this essay exposes the degree to which McKay represented the realization of the American dream as a myth and the pursuit of the American dream as a nightmare, especially for black Caribbean migrants and African American citizens.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12557
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12557
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 16-may-2024