The End of the Good Life: Literary Representations of Suburbia and the American Nightmare
Conventional literary and filmic representations of the American suburbs depict a space that is either middle-class idyll or claustrophobic vacuum. By engaging with suburban gothic literature, this article interrogates such portrayals and deconstructs the utopian conception of suburbia. I argue that...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1279 |
| Summary: | Conventional literary and filmic representations of the American suburbs depict a space that is either middle-class idyll or claustrophobic vacuum. By engaging with suburban gothic literature, this article interrogates such portrayals and deconstructs the utopian conception of suburbia. I argue that, rather than representing the "good life", the suburbs in these texts are sites of deeply-rooted cultural anxieties. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-9771 |