California Dreams and American Contradictions : Women Writers and the Western Ideal /
"Monique McDade's study examines a group of diverse women writers of the American West from an intersectional standpoint to understand the progressive narratives the West tells about itself"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2023]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: California dreaming: a frontier ethic and the American paradox
- Sentimental liberalism. The "autoethnographic" heroines in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's sentimental novels, Who would have thought it? and The squatter and the don
- The liberal fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson's sentimental advocacy in Ramona
- Challenging progress. Sui Sin Far's genre of intervention: the regional sketch and the "real" in realism
- An autobiography of Western-American integration: Eva Rutland and her alternative politics of respectability
- International frontiers. Conclusion: A dream dreamed for too long: Joan Didion's Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Deep story".