From Contents:
— the American tradition of Descent in the Recent Fiction of Dissent
— I Married a Communist: Philip Roth's Other Version of the American Pastoral
— Afrocentrism Challenges Americanism: Black Essentialism as Dissent
— The Philosophy of Dissent: John C. Calhoun and the Southern Identity â—š Utopia/Dystopia as a Psychedelic/Narcotic Adventure: from Huxley to Burroughs and On
— Dissent and its Discontents

The volume comprises a series of essays that were presented at the Romanian Association for American Studies biennial conference, under the same theme, organized by the RAAS, the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission and the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University, Constanta on October 7-9, 2010. the studies included in the volume explore the American repercussions of descent/dissent from an inter- and intra-disciplinary perspective that combines literature, literary theory, history, art, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, film studies, geography and political sciences. they also interrogate the contemporary atmosphere of dissent in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and the cultural give rise to underground, countercultural and (anti)utopian movements and positions in the U.S. Given the chosen topics and the cross-disciplinary approach, the volume addresses both informed readers and a very large audience.

Contributors:
Tunde Adeleke; Camelia Anghel; Mihaela Arsene; Gabriela Bedreaga; Mariana Boeru; Andrea Borella; Marina Cap-Bun; Ileana Chiru-Jitaru; Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu; Adina Ciugureanu; Costel Coroban; Daniela Craciun; Anca Mihaela Dobrinescu; Andrzej Dorobek; Maria-Magdalena Faurar; Eric Gilder; Mervyn Hagger; Anca-Luminita Iancu; F. Gul Kocsoy; David Jenkins; Madalina Lasca; Mihaela-Cristina Lazar; Laviniu Costinel Lapadat; Corina Lungu; Alexandra-Lavinia Macarov; Ludmila Martanovschi; Teodor Mateoc; Rodica Mihaila; Roxana Mihele; Andreea Mingiuc (Poenaru); Raluca Moldovan; Barbara A. Nelson; Anca Peiu; Emanuel Plopeanu; Raluca Rogoveanu; Octavian Roske; Ioana Stamatescu; Nicoleta Stanca; Oana-Elena Strugaru; Smaranda Stefanovici; Irina Toma; Adelina Vartolomei; Florian Andrei Vlad; Cristina-Georgiana Voicu.