Counterfactual History and Diasporic Identity in Philip Roth’s The Plot against America
The Plot against America, a 2004 novel by acclaimed American author Philip Roth, starts out from a counterfactual premise, i.e., that aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election, running on an isolationist platform summarised in the slogan “America first!”...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2023-12-01
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