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Bianka Gengler: The American dream and the city of angels. America’s prevailing national myth in contemporary Los Angeles fiction. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2025. 213 Seiten, 42,00 EUR. ISBN-13: 9783826091728

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Bianca Genglers „The American Dream and the City of Angels“ untersucht intensiv und aufschlussreich die amerikanische Prosa der Jahrtausendwende
Von Mechthild Hesse
Ausgabe 09-2025

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The book explores the reciprocal relationship
between one of the foundational national mythologies of the United
States and literary representations of life in the postmodern
metropolis. Considering literary theory, historical contexts of nation
and identity formation, and the socioeconomic impact of urban
development, this book provides an analytical framework that aims to
situate diverse works of literature from and about LA in the context of
shared communal values and national ideals at the turn of the
twenty-first century. Through critical readings of different genres
exemplary to the literary landscape of Los Angeles, a fictional
topography of this disparate metropolis is traced. Stories located in
neighborhoods shaped by minority groups, fictional retellings from the
renowned Hollywood film industry, and gritty crime narratives of LA Noir
are examined through the lens of the nation’s mythology – altogether
creating a diverse patchwork of the city’s literature that offers
unique, at times even contentious perspectives on the promise of the
American Dream.

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Bianka Gengler has studied British and American
Studies and Sociology at the Uni-versity of Konstanz and the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Literary
Studies from the University of Konstanz and currently works in academic
marketing and communications.

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