Mythology, Ideology and the Contemporary American Short Story Cycle

The present study proposes that there is an intrinsic relationship between

United States. I argue that the contemporary form of the story cycle has become

dominant ideological discourses of Euroamerica and its underpinning

The five authors and the texts I discuss are Tim O’Brien and The Things

Gerald Vizenor and Landfill Meditation, Sherman Alexie and Ten Little Indians,

In the thesis I address the interrelationship between ideology and

five disparate writers each uses the story cycle in his or her own distinctive way to

challenge a dominant ideology and the mythology that underpins it.