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Woody Guthrie's Seeds of Man: an Experience Lived and Dreamed and the American Dream of Wealth

其他書名	Twists on a Twisted Vision
出版	Idaho State University, 1997
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E6zaGwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Woody Guthrie, known for his folk songs and political activism, is virtually unknown as a prose writer. His semi-autobiographical novel Seeds of man: an experience lived and dreamed, however, exists within strong American literary traditions and merits academic attention. Guthrie and his novel operate first within the tradition of nineteenth-century American writers, particularly Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, who attempted to call Americans away from distorted American dreams to what they believed were the true American dreams. The other tradition in which Guthrie and Seeds operate is the tradition of American proletarian literature, works that criticized the inhumane system of capitalism in the United States. Furthermore, Guthrie details the materialistic American dream's shortcomings in which the pursuit of monetary wealth takes precedence over humanitarianism. In the false dream's place, Guthrie offers his own hopeful dream for America in which Americans pursue solidarity and mutual aid over materialism.