Male Politics in Normal Mailer's An American Dream
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This dissertation discusses the treatment of women characters in Norman Mailer’s
novelAn American Dream.The so-called Dream of Jefferson’s “Life, Liberty and Pursuit
of Happiness”, become mere dreams for American women. Long history of patriarchal
domination in society and its created certain truth upon women is the one and only one
bar for the emancipationof the women and their prosperity. Male politics to subordinate
women is the hindrance for women’s ‘American Dream’. So to crumble down the male
politics of subordination is indispensable to attain the dream. Until and unless bias
nature of social systemis not altered, women are not able to dream the “American dream
Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness.” So, the novel An American Dreamis true to
females only by rupturing bias social construct of patriarchal domination and
subordination in the existingsociety. So, Mailer raises the problem and hence female
should go a head to encounter the male politics through there own strong notion of
women’s politics to overcome that.