Acknowledgments ix
Introduction i
Chapter One
The Shocks of Transplantation
World’s End * Continental Drift * How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents * The Joy Luck Club * China Men * The Mambo
Kings Play Songs of Love * The Xenogenesis Trilogy * Jasmine
Chapter Two
Mythical Innocence
Dandelion Wine * The Bluest Eye * Mama Day * Continental
Drift * Original Sins * So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away *
Deadeye Dick * The Things They Carried * 1968： A Novel *
Invisible Man * The Sot-Weed Factor
Chapter Three
Yearning for Lost Civilization
Fools Crow * Mr.Sammler’s Planet * The Dean’s December *
Love in the Ruins * Snow White * The Free-Lance Pallbearers *
Flight to Canada
Chapter Four
Seeking Spiritual Reality
House Made of Dawn * Rabbit, Run * Rabbit Redux * Rabbit Is
Rich * Rabbit at Rest * Bless Me, Ultima * Legs * Billy Phelan’s
Greatest Game * Ironweed * An American Dream * Gravity’s Rainbow
Chapter Five
The Fragility of Democracy
The Crying of Lot 49 * The Book of Daniel * Libra " The Terrible
Twos * The Terrible Threes * The Turner Diaries * Ecotopia *
Ecotopia Emerging * Cities of the Red Night * The Moon Is a
Harsh Mistress * Vineland
Chapter Six
Demonic Visions
The Free—Lance Pallbearers * The Public Burning * One Flew
over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Woman on the Edge of Time * Blood
and Guts in High School * American Psycho * Why Are We in
Vietnam? * Mercy * Bearheart：The Heirship Chronicles*
Almanac of the Dead
Chapter Seven
Liberating the Land of Freedom
Sombrero Fallout： A Japanese Novel * Dhalgren * Tripmaster
Monkey： His Fake Book * Griever： An American Monkey King in
China * Always Coming Home * The Dispossessed * Woman on
the Edge of Time * He, She and It * The Fifth Sacred Thing
Chapter Eight
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Sula * Hiding Place * Damballah * Sent for You Yesterday *
Tracks * Love Medicine * Ceremony * The Beans of Egypt,
Maine * Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts * Merry Men * Slapstick;
or, Lonesome No More！ * Islands in the Net
Chapter Nine
The Failure of the Dream in Fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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