This article analyzes John Grisham’s The Client (1993), focusing on the role of the corpse within the text’s symbolic economy. Rather than a realistic portrait of the American juridical system, as it might appear, the novel turns out to be an updated version of the traditional ‘American dream’, by idealizing America as the land where justice, restored to its authentic and genuinely American nature, works a means of individual redemption and social affirmation.
Habeas Corpse. The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham’s The Client
IULIANO, FIORENZO
2014-01-01
Abstract
This article analyzes John Grisham’s The Client (1993), focusing on the role of the corpse within the text’s symbolic economy. Rather than a realistic portrait of the American juridical system, as it might appear, the novel turns out to be an updated version of the traditional ‘American dream’, by idealizing America as the land where justice, restored to its authentic and genuinely American nature, works a means of individual redemption and social affirmation.File in questo prodotto:
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