“The Land That He Saw Looked Like a Paradise. It Was Not, He Knew”: Suburbia and the Maladjusted American Male in John Cheever’s Bullet Park
This essay explores the issue of masculinity in John Cheever’s somewhat critically overlooked novel, Bullet Park (1969), so as to call attention to the inevitable conflict between the conformist ideologies of the postwar corporate world and the dormant desires of the atomized male suburbanite. By wa...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2016-08-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11581 |