Una geremiade per i migranti: rileggendo The Grapes of Wrath di John Steinbeck
Pala Mauro
2019-01-01
Abstract
Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is his acknowledged masterpiece, a book in which he was deeply engaged in writing and in devising its peculiar rhetorical dimension. The novel’s primary aim was to arouse his readers toward action in order to improve the lot of the migrants who arrived in California from Oklahoma and the neighbor states in the wake of the Dust bowl drought and the 1929 Depression. For this socially conscious tale of suffering and betrayed promises Steinbeck resorted to the traditional form of the jeremiad, the errand devised by the Puritans who colonized New England: in lamenting the badness of times the American version of the jeremiad does not bespeak a despairing attitude, but rather directs the American people toward the earthly fulfillment of their destiny. Similarities between the chosen People of the Puritan tradition and Steinbeck’s Joad family en route to the Promised land are obvious: in both cases migration reinstates through change the validity of the project which lies at the core of the American Dream.File | Size | Format | |
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