The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Identity Crisis: A State of the Union Address

From Project Mailer
< The Mailer Review‎ | Volume 2, 2008
Revision as of 11:30, 8 September 2020 by Jules Carry (talk | contribs) (Fixed some refs. Added one that was omitted.)
« The Mailer ReviewVolume 2 Number 1 • 2008 • In Memorium: Norman Mailer: 1923–2007 »
Written by
Lawrence R. Broer
Abstract: No two contemporary writers have looked harder or with greater analytical intelligence at the forces undermining the American Dream than Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Whatever individual differences of vision or temperament may separate these brooding seers, Mailer, the mystic Existentialist, and Kurt Vonnegut, the comic Absurdist, serve as shamans, spiritual medicine men whose function is to expose various forms of societal madness—dispelling the evil spirits of greed, irresponsible mechanization, and aggression while encouraging reflection and the will to positive change.
URL: https://prmlr.us/mr08broe

Works Cited

  • Broer, Lawrence R. (1994). "Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut". In Rieger, Branimir M. Dionysus in Literature. Bowling Green, KY: Bowling Green State UP.
  • Hoppe, David (October 2005). "Vonnegut at 80". AlterNet 2. Retrieved February 24, 2008.
  • Joyce, James (1916). Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Viking.
  • Mailer, Norman (23 January 2005). "Empire Building: America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan". The Sunday Times. London.
  • — (1959). "The White Negro". Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam: 337–358.
  • — (2003). Why Are We at War?. New York: Random House.
  • Norman Mailer: Mailer on Mailer (Windstar DVD). American Masters Series. PBS. 2000.
  • Vonnegut, Kurt (1991). Fates Worse Than Death. New York: Berkley Books.
  • — (27 January 2003). "Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@: Interview with Joel Bleifuss". In These Times. Retrieved February 24, 2008.
  • — (2005). A Man without a Country. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  • — (1975) [1969]. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions). New York: Dell.