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Left in the West : Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West /
"Left in the West is an edited collection bringing together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural left in the American West, especially as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in New York and major eastern metropolitan centers...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno, Nevada :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Literature, Culture, and the Left in the American West / Gioia Woods
- pt. I Left Movements: Institutions and Ideologies
- 1. "Activism Brings Out the Best in All of Us": Toward a History of Peace and Justice Movements in Utah from the 1960s to the Present / John S. McCormick
- 2. Deep Ecology in Humboldt County: Bill Devall and a Philosophy for Action / Daniel Rinn
- 3. "An International, Dissident, Insurgent Ferment": Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Left Coast / Gioia Woods
- 4. Traditional Roots of Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads / William M. Clements
- 5. Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running: Between Chicano Nationalism and the Left / Jose Navarro
- pt. II Left Readings: Rewriting Region and Radicalism
- 6. Eschaton of Abundance: Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think as Transcendentalist Satire / Robert Yusef Rabiee
- 7. MariSandoz: A Writer's Politics / Bette Weidman
- 8. "Poisons Up to the Waist in a Junkyard of Breaking Machines": Peter Berg, Bioregional Ethics, and the Trouble with the Master's Tools / William Lombardi
- 9. Contact Points: The Roadside Diner's Machinery of Work in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath / John Schwetman
- 10. "The Queen of the Mad Frontier": Settler Colonialism and Jack Spicer's Queer Politics / Alex Trimble Young
- pt. III Left in Transit: Success and Limitations
- 11. New Bohemias, California Style: The Intimate and Global Networks of Photographic Modernism / Audrey Goodman
- 12. "Backward in Time and Forward in Dream of Unknown Memory": Deborah Miranda's Unsettling Colonial Genealogies / Lisa J. Udel
- 13. Leaving the West for the Left: Louise Thompson Patterson, the New Negro Movement, and Black Women's Activism / Emily Lutenski
- 14. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Race, and the California Suffrage and Women's Club Movements, 1896
- 1911 / Darcie Rives-East.