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Moving stories : migration and the American West, 1850-2000 / Edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda M. Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Halcyon ; v. 23.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Migration, Internal--United States.
- Migration, Internal.
- United States.
- West (U.S.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- West (U.S.).
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Immigrants--West (U.S.).
- Immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Reno and Las Vegas : Nevada Humanities Committee, [2001]
- Summary:
- Ever since Frederick Jackson Turner, migration has been a central theme in the popular imagination and scholarly study of the American West. Moving Stories showcases today's varied scholarly approaches. Contributors from the fields of literature, history, and popular culture examine a range of topics: movement into, within, and out of the West; the influence of historical events such as the Great Depression and World War II; literary portrayals of migration; and the diverse meanings of migration for women and men of different economic and ethnic backgrounds.
- Contents:
- "Some Is Writing Some Reading": Emigrants on the Overland Trail / Theresa Strouth Gaul 3
- The Frontier Within and Without: Gender and the Memoirs of Rural German-Speaking Immigrants / Linda Schelbitzki Pickle 23
- Sarah Winnemucca: Multiple Places, Multiple Selves / Gioia Woods 51
- Stephen Crane and "Some Others": Economics, Race, and the Vision of a Failed Frontier / Matthew Evertson 71
- A New Opportunity for the "Man with the Hoe": Rural Reform and the Marketing of Montana, 1909-1916 / Douglas M. Edwards 99
- Migration, Masculinity, and Racial Identity in Taylor Gordon's Born to Be / Michael K. Johnson 119
- At the Crossroads of Whiteness: Anti-Migrant Activism, Eugenics, and Popular Culture in Depression-Era California / Peter La Chapelle 143
- Rethinking Black Migration: A Perspective from the West / Josh Sides 185
- Into the Prefab West: Federal Settlements and Western Migration During World War II / Heather Fryer 213
- Spanish-Speaking Mormons in Utah / Jessie L. Embry 249
- Better Living Through Westward Migration: Don DeLillo's Inversion of the American West as "Virgin Land" in Underworld / Marni Gauthier 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1890591084
- OCLC:
- 48776408
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