Proceedings 01

The American Dream. Past and Present

The Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies,
Skierniewice, November 1992

Editors: Agnieszka Salska & Paul Wilson

Contents

Editor’s Note (Agnieszka Salska)

I. THE OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE

• The American Myth and the Polish Travellers of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century (lzabella Rusinowa)
• Do Polish Youth Dream American? The Penetration of American Cultural Values in Poland (Irmina Wawrzyczek, Zbigniew Mazur)
• Latinos in the United States: In Search of a Dream (Mario Menendez)

II. THE POLITICAL DREAM

• The American Dream and the American New Left (Roman A. Tokarczyk)
• Alvin Toffler’s Ideas and the American Dream: Selected Political and Legal Aspects (MarekStefaniuk)

III. THE WRITER’S VISION

• Mapping the Literature of the American South for Non-Southerners; or the Southern Version of the American Dream, Then and Now (Rebecca Roxburgh Butler)
• Whitman’s Columbus: A Paradigm for What Happened to the American Dream (Agnieszka Salska)
• The American Dream in John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy (Jadwiga Maszewska)