Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and the return of the grand narratives
ISSN: 1885-3625
Año de publicación: 2019
Número: 22
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Revista internacional de culturas y literaturas
Resumen
This article analyses Alexander Payne’s film Nebraska from the perspective of the paradigm shift produced after the much-debated passing of postmodernism, announced by theorists such as Ihab Hassan or Linda Hutcheon. We shall examine how the lack of grand narratives makes it almost impossible to give structured meanings to the concept of reality. Payne’s project can be viewed as both an allegorical and a physical journey that takes the character to no specific destination in his search to make amends with the harsh reality that, ultimately, spells the end of the American Dream.
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