A History of California LiteratureBlake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger's A History of Californian Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This History encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading historians and literary critics, this book offers readers insight into the tensions and contradictions that have shaped the literary landscape of California and also American literature generally. |
Contents
beginnings | 5 |
Tales of Native California | 17 |
Indigenous Peoples under Colonial Rule | 30 |
Spanish and Mexican Literature | 43 |
White Explorers and Travelers | 61 |
The Gold Rush | 75 |
California Nature Writers | 88 |
The Black Frontier | 105 |
Writing the Hidden California | 215 |
The Beats | 231 |
Bay Area Poetics 19441981 | 246 |
Los Angeles Poetry from the McCarthy to the Punk Eras | 260 |
African American Uprising | 283 |
Face and Place in Post1980 | 309 |
19812014 | 327 |
Modern California Nature Writing | 343 |
Asian American Literature | 123 |
Mexican American Literature | 139 |
The Protest Fiction of Frank Norris Upton Sinclair | 157 |
Dreams Denial and DepressionEra Fiction | 171 |
The HardBoiled California Novel | 199 |
Making Californias Towns and Small Cities Visible in | 358 |
Science Fiction and Mysterious Worlds | 371 |
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