چکیده (انگلیسی):

Raymond Carver, a minimalist postmodern short story writer, is famous for his
famous saying about Regan’s America. As a critic of American consumerist society,
Carver explores the dark side of life through short stories. The present study is an
attempt to illustrate the nature of repression in Carver’s three stories, namely "The
Third Thing That Killed My Father Off", "Elephant", and "Where I'm Calling
From". It seeks to demonstrate how these short stories exemplify material
possession, complacency, and story-telling as repressive strategies adopted by the
characters to conceal or suppress their anxieties. The argument is in the light of
Fredric Jameson's critique of postmodern Culture Industry and reveals how the
dominant ideology in America of the 70s and 80s reify and commodify the lives of
its subject individuals in the era of post-industrial capitalism.