A Study Of Bound Zuckerman’s American Dream From The Perspective Of Trauma

Philip Milton Roth is a famous contemporary American Jewish writer. He is known as one of the four pillars of American Jewish literature and as a representative of the academic writing, his whole life was pay attention to learning novel, writing novels, teaching novels until 2013 he announced abandoned writing novels. His The Bound Zuckerman trilogy including 1979’s The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound in 1981 and The Anatomy Class in 1985.Based on the text of Philip Roth’s The Bound Zuckerman Trilogy, this paper mainly focused on the trauma perspective to interpret this trilogy. Most researchers believe that this is Roth’s middle period Trilogy, mainly through Zuckerman to discuss the issues of the Jewish writer’s creation, including the relationship between literature and reality? How to create the novel? Social morality and the novel moral questions. However, from the perspectives of trauma to analysis this work, it’s not only include Roth’s attitude of how to write novel,but include further problem about Jewish people of different generation in the process of Americanization suffered trauma and how to ease these trauma and the broken American dream when this ease process fail after.Through these analysis of these issues I get this research conclusions:Philip Roth how to realize"betrayal Type"writing and his attitude to Americanization and "American dream". This thesis is divided into three chapters.The First chapter is mainly based on the text using the trauma theory to analysis Jewish traumatic experiences in The Bound Zuckerman Trilogy and how to transfer historical trauma and reality trauma. It can divide into the first generation immigrant’s historical trauma and the second generation immigrant’s trauma of reality in Americanized process.The second chapter deeply analysis trauma relief ways in the process of different degrees Americanization.It pointed that the ease of trauma is the process of pursuit of "American dream" about Jewish immigrants process,including writer’s trauma relieve and Zuckerman’s family from restrain and forgotten to ease trauma, from this analysis to experience the Roth’s perception and selection bias of trauma whether can alleviate and how to alleviate.The third chapter mainly analyzes the reality of American is how to accelerate the trauma, leading to the broken of American dream". From the two aspects of performance and reasons of the"American dream" shattered to explore the reality of American Jews bear the shackles of history, at the same time also hit by the American reality, the contemporary Jews is unable to achieve the "American dream".The conclusion mainly discusses Philip Roth’s "betrayal" jewish writing, which is the author understanding of Americanization and "American dream". Roth’s "betrayal" or "crossing the line type"writing is from the way about consciously create opposite Jewish image and reflect the chaotic sexual relations, black humor and irony narrative style to manifestation. His purpose is to express affirmation to Jewish people’s Americanized and negation of the "American dream".It pointed that because of the transmission of historical trauma and Americanized the reality of American caused Jewish trauma,but in the face of the trauma, to avoid the process of Americanization doomed to fail because it is not in conformity with the historical development and in the face of American is the right attitude, although the process is full of pain, also may fail, but the attempt is necessary. But because of the change of the contemporary connotation of "American dream"and social class and mechanism, for the Jews,"American dream"was a nightmare.