“Exiles at Home”: Raymond Carver, Bob Dylan and the Language of the Dispossessed

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  • “Exiles at Home（在宅の流刑者）”：レイモンド・カーパー、ボブ・ディランと漂泊者の言語

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This essay attempts to revisit and reread one of Raymond Carver’s finest short stories, “Where is Everyone?” by placing it in conversation with three late-career songs from Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan?“Tryin’ to Get to Heaven,” “Mississippi,” and “Workingman’s Blues #2”? in order to help understand the suffering of what has come to be called the “non-collegeeducated, white working class,” particularly men, in the US. It draws heavily on the groundbreaking work of Timothy Hampton, who has written eloquently of Dylan’s importance in understanding the stereotypical “Trump voter,” and argues that Carver’s work, which he produced in the early stages of our “post-industrial, globalized economy,” can be productively read in tandem with Dylan’s recent songs.

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