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The Hemingway Society: “Hemingway and The American Dream”
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2012 Convention
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The Hemingway Society
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2012 Convention
November 9-11, 2012
Research Triangle Park
Durham, North Carolina 27709
Session Title: “Hemingway and The American Dream”
The phrase “American Dream” elicits various responses: “What dream?” “Whose dream?” and “What do you mean?” Historians and cultural critics generally agree that early 20th century historian, essayist, and social critic, James Truslow Adams coined the term American Dream as an ideal in The Epic of America (1933). In his account of the American enterprise, he described the American Dream as belief in a “…land in which life should be better and richer for every man…” where opportunity is afforded to “…each according to his ability or achievement.” Adams roots the Dream in a “social order” in which the innate capability of individuals (regardless of gender) triumphs over “birth or position.” Material plenty, though recognizably present in the Dream, gives way to the idea of each person “…being able to grow to the fullest development as a man or woman…” while not being hampered “…by barriers . . . erected in older civilizations.” At the heart of Adams’ approach to the American Dream is a dialectic between the individual and the community to affect the good life in the American culture at large. The Hemingway Society invites submissions for its 2012 SAMLA session dealing with the work of Ernest Hemingway and any aspect of the American Dream broadly construed (rugged individualism, equality of opportunity, laissez-faire capitalism, social mobility, a gospel of work, self-reliance, material acquisitiveness, ambition, education and luck rooted in hope). Also welcome are studies addressing the conversation between the individual and the community at the core of the American Dream narrative in Hemingway’s work.
Deadline for abstract submissions: June 1, 2012
Session Chair:
Jason M. Gibson
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Jgibson@fscj.edu
(904) 381-3587
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Jason M. Gibson
Florida State College at Jacksonville, Kent
3939 Roosevelt Blvd. (B239)
Jacksonville, FL 32205
(904) 381-3587
Email: jgibson@fscj.edu
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