Title Lost in the land of Oz : the search for identity and community in American life / Madonna Kolbenschlag.

Publication Info.	San Francisco : Harper & Row, [1988]
	©1988

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	307 K81L	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	xii, 204 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
Summary	Kolbenschlag believes that modern social and economic conditions have changed every aspects of the American dream except the dream itself. She delves into the The Wizard of Oz to help describe America as "a nation of spiritual orphans." Dorothy, who is lost in Oz, becomes the symbol of alienation and of expectations and deprivation. She shows how most people in the United States discover that they are orphaned in many ways: by family of origin, by the gender, class, and culture in which they are socialized, by systems and institutions, and by traditional belief structures. Kolbenschlag argues that myths tell us truths about our experience, and stresses the need to know and "accept the inner orphan and bring together the apparently opposite goals of community and individuality." ISBN 0-06-064768-X: $16.95.
Subject	United States -- Moral conditions.
	Communities.
	Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
	Self.
	Social values.
	Ego. (DNLM)D004532
	Social Values. (DNLM)D012945
	Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature.
	Communauté.
	Moi (Psychologie)
	Valeurs sociales.
	United States -- Conditions morales.
	Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00805273
	Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
	Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
	Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
	Social values. (OCoLC)fst01123424
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Identität. (DE-588)4026482-8
	Wertordnung. (DE-588)4135971-9
	Zivilisation. (DE-588)4067906-8
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	United States.
Other Form:	Online version: Kolbenschlag, Madonna, 1935- Lost in the land of Oz. 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1988 (OCoLC)654381506
ISBN	006064768X
	9780060647681

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