California Dreams And American Contradictions
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California Dreams And American Contradictions
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Author : Monique McDade
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-03
California Dreams And American Contradictions written by Monique McDade and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
California Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the contradictions between an American liberal individualism and American equality. Monique McDade analyzes works by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sui Sin Far, and a previously unstudied African American writer, Eva Rutland, to trace an archive of western American women writers who made visible what dominant genres subsumed under images of American progress and westward expansion. Read together these writers provide new entry points into the political debates that have plagued the United States since the nation's founding and that set the precedent for westward expansion. Their romances, regional sketches, memoirs, and journalism point to the inherently antagonistic relationship between a Rooseveltian rugged individualism that encouraged an Anglo male-dominated West and the progressive equality and opportunity the West seemingly promised disenfranchised citizens. The writers included in California Dreams and American Contradictions challenged literature's role in creating regional division, conformist communities that support nationally sponsored images of gendered, ethnic, and immigrant others, and liberal histories validated through a strategic vocabulary rooted in "freedom," "equality," and "progress."
California Dreams And American Contradictions
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Author : Monique McDade
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
California Dreams And American Contradictions written by Monique McDade and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Literary Criticism categories.
In California Dreams and American Contradictions Monique McDade 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.
The American Dream And Dreams Deferred
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Author : Carlton D. Floyd
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-11-14
The American Dream And Dreams Deferred written by Carlton D. Floyd and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with Social Science categories.
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale shows how rival interpretations of the Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literatures, and histories, Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural, and ecologically sustainable foundations.
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 1986-12-04
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915 written by Kevin Starr and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-04 with History categories.
Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1975
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Copyright categories.
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1986-12-04
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915 written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-04 with Social Science categories.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Americans And The California Dream
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Americans And The California Dream written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Liberal Dreams And Nature S Limits
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Author : James T. Lemon
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-05-14
Liberal Dreams And Nature S Limits written by James T. Lemon and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-14 with Social Science categories.
On the agricultural frontier and through technological progress, Europeans and others and their descendants have sought to fulfill their dreams of improvement. Through businesses, governments, and other bodies, city dwellers expedited these desires by organizing settlements, communications, trade, finance, and manufacturing. In turn, cities grew mightily. To assess the present condition of cities, Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits focuses on five large North American cities at various times in the past --Philadelphia (about 1760), New York (1860), Chicago (1910), Los Angeles (1950), and Toronto (1975). Life inside these cities--specifically the economy, society and politics, public services, land development, and the geographies of circulation, workplaces, and residential districts--is the central concern of this book. Another concern is drawing contrasts and similarities between the American and Canadian urban experiences. North Americans, most now living in cities, face the challenge of a social frontier--how to maintain civility in a near-stagnant economy. Despite recent advances in cyberspace, nature has imposed limits on technical progress defined by speed, convenience, and comfort; Promethean gains through creative destruction are no longer possible. Increased preoccupation with money, status, and safety suggests that the striving inspired by liberalism is still appealing. Yet without growth, liberal dreams cannot be fulfilled. To ensure work, income equity, and a degree of freedom in thought and action, citizens and leaders in both countries will have to commit themselves as never before to managing fairness through social democracy. Sustainable cities are not possible otherwise.
The California Gold Rush
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Author : Mark A. Eifler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-22
The California Gold Rush written by Mark A. Eifler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-22 with History categories.
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text, Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the development of California and the American West in the second half of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit of gold.
Material Dreams
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Americans and the California D
Release Date : 1990
Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Americans and the California D this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles.