California Dreams And American Contradictions

Author : Monique McDade
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496235282
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Dreams and American Contradictions written by Monique McDade and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Monique McDade
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496232968
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Dreams and American Contradictions written by Monique McDade and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carlton D. Floyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634122
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Dream and Dreams Deferred written by Carlton D. Floyd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195042336
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923256
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sonia Maasik
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031264700X
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Life in the USA written by Sonia Maasik and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs of Life in the USA teaches students to read and write critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, the text’s high-interest themes feature provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s impressive popular culture: How is TV’s Mad Men a lightning rod for America’s polarized political climate? Has the nature of personal identity changed in an era when we spend so much of our lives online? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about our common, everyday cultural experience. Read the preface. Order Multimodal Readings for Signs of Life in the USA packaged with Signs of Life in the USA, Seventh Edition using ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1989-2.

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Download or read book Americans and the California dream written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1760 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Atwater
Publisher : Stag Hunt Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9789780615475
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New California Dream written by Patrick Atwater and published by Stag Hunt Enterprises. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California doesn t need more lofty rhetoric about what a Dream place this state is. Our government is in crisis. The impartial Legislative Analysts Office projects multi-billion dollar deficits until at least 2015. Cynics say that Californians are too polarized, too diverse, and too burdened with a byzantine bureaucracy to come together to face this mountain. Yet our recurring deficit is only less than one percent of California s nearly two trillion dollar economy. And these cynics don t offer reasons so much as excuses. California today has a proud history, a stunning natural environment, and an unbelievably creative people that connects to every corner of the globe. Reflecting on the fractures that have flowed from the hyperidealistic California Dream of the past, Patrick Atwater shows how together we can harness those strengths to build a New California Dream focused on creating a better life for all Californians. In honor of his parents, twenty percent of the proceeds from the book will be donated to California schools through DonorsChoose.

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Americans and the California D
ISBN 13 : 0195044878
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Americans and the California D. This book was released on 1990 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.