Digitized Honors Theses (2002-2017)
Date of Award
12-2004
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
BA
Department
English
Faculty Mentor
Robert Coleman, Ph.D.
Advisor(s)
Patrick Cesarini, Ph.D., Zoya Kahn, Ph.D., Sue Walker English, Ph.D.
Abstract
The purpose of my thesis is to give an account of the role of consumerism in four contemporary American novels, Douglass Coupland's Generation X, Don DeLillo's White noise, Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country, and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. some of the general things that I attempt to accomplish by doing this include, but are not limited to describing the positions of the authors/novels on consumerism, describing how they articulate this position, and describing how a work such as the one I am undertaking might augment both reflection on the contemporary American novel and reflection on the socio-economic politics of consumerism. I go about this by writing three chapters based on particular themes and interconnections between the works themselves.
Recommended Citation
Havard, John C., "Death, Existentialism, and Postmortem Identity: A Look At Consumerism in Four Contemporary American Novels" (2004). Digitized Honors Theses (2002-2017). 11.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/honors_theses-boundprint/11