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This book combines the historical context of Norman Mailer's novel creation, including "Advertising Myself", "The Presidential Files", "Cannibals and Christians", "The Existential Errand", "The Art of the Occult: Essays on Writing", "Why Do We War?" " And "On God: An Extraordinary Conversation" and other non-fiction works about human nature, morality, and contemporary American society, culture, and politics. Using literary criticism methods such as new historicism, postcolonialism, feminism, and deconstruction as well as textual reading methods, a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of "The Naked and the Dead," "Barbary Shores," "The Deer Park," "An American Dream" and "Why Are We in Vietnam?" ", "The Executioner's Song", "Tough Guys Don't Dance", "Harlot's Ghost", "The Gospel of a Son" and "The Castle in the Woods" and other novels deconstruct and construct the image of the United States and its moral value orientation. It reveals the creative purpose and development motivation of Mailer's novels from the perspective of deconstructing and constructing the image of the United States, and reveals Mailer's novels from the perspective of moral value orientation. The purpose and significance of Mailer's novels in deconstructing and constructing the image of the United States is that the deconstruction and construction of the image of the United States in Mailer's novels and the severe criticism of the United States in his nonfiction works are intended to allow the United States and the world to see clearly the nature of American imperialism and racism, thereby criticizing and resisting various hegemonic ideas and discriminatory behaviors in the United States that undermine human freedom, equality, and peace. Therefore, this book will help readers deeply understand the social value and significance of Mailer and his novels, and will have a positive impact on promoting the spread and acceptance of Mailer in China.

This book is based on the current status and existing problems of research on American novels at home and abroad, using literary reception criticism and New Historicist literary criticism as theoretical references. By carefully reading American novel research papers published in important domestic academic journals since the early 20th century and American novel research treatises and related research academic papers and treatises published by important publishing houses, this book conducts an in-depth study of three different historical periods (1901-1978, 1979-1999, 2 000-2015) hot spots, angles, methods and overall trends in the study of American novels in China. From an overall perspective, it diachronically and systematically explores the historical evolution of the study of American novels in China from ideological criticism to non-ideological criticism and multi-literary and cultural criticism in the course of a century, as well as its cultural and literary effects. It summarizes the successful experiences and failures in the study of American novels in China over the past century, and looks forward to the future development trend of the study of American novels in China.