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...Abigail Cheever Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood Abigail Cheever ecounting the circumstances that led to Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron claims he decided to write his...

...: the normative development toward individuality (which midcentury intellectuals valorized) and the normative acceptance of mass tastes and preferences (which they loathed). The vexed relationship between normativity and authenticity also drives Cheever’s second chapter, “From Madness to the Prozac...

... Choice” 47.3 (2001): 293-324 Carter, Angela. See Ahearn Cassady, Neal. See Harris Cather, Willa. See Lucenti; Kot; Woidat Cendrars, Blaise. See Bochner Cheever, Abigail. “Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood.” 46.3 (2000): 346-368 Chura, Patrick JVital Contact...

... and her quest to “optimize” ( WN 7) her body through diet and exercise. Ralph Clare (2014 : 128–29) has noted, moreover, that Dylar both anticipates the rise of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac and resembles its tranquilizer predecessor, Valium. Where the “sleepy, slightly euphoric...

... of hating the US but who “simply prefer France for one reason or another” (211), and who are stereotyped by the French as supposedly all nonsmokers, overweight or dieting, pushy or on Prozac so as not to be (212). “I’d never thought much about how Americans were viewed overseas until I came...