Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons his wife and child with autism to travel across the US just as the country...
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| Language: | English |
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Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Atlantis |
| Online Access: | https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/849 |