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The Mailer Review/Volume 5, 2011/Norman Mailer's Mythmaking in An American Dream and “The White Negro”

From Project Mailer
« The Mailer ReviewVolume 5 Number 1 • 2011 • Norris Mailer: A Life in Words »
Written by
Martjin Sermeus
Abstract: Mailer is very concerned with the American “identity,” not just with the shape and soul of the country as a whole, but also with the individual identity of “the” American as he searches for the characteristics essential to the “real” American identity.