1st Edition
Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits The Other America
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
Biography
Adriano A. Tedde holds a PhD in American Studies from Griffith University, Australia (2019). His research interests are in US popular culture, US twentieth-century intellectual history and the history of neoliberalism. His articles have appeared in Literature Compass, Comparative American Studies and Riffs Journal.
