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This chapter explores Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho as an example of blank fiction that uses a serial killer to criticise the Reagan/Bush administration: its social, political, and economic policies, and the cultural climate it created in the mid-late 1980s in the United States.
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Donnelly, A.M. (2018). American Psycho . In: Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76819-9_9
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