Homer from Salinas : John Steinbeck's enduring voice for California / edited by William Anthony Nericcio.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Nericcio, William Anthony, 1961-

San Diego State University. College of Arts and Letters.

Conference Name:

Enduring Voice for California: a Celebration of John Steinbeck (2007 : San Diego State University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Steinbeck, John.

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

Criticism and interpretation.

California--In literature--Congresses.

California.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

190 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

John Steinbeck's enduring voice for California

Place of Publication:

San Diego, Calif. : San Diego State University Press, 2009.

Contents:

John Steinbeck's Trojan horse : an introduction to Homer from Salinas / by William Anthony Nericcio

Steinbeck's Wrath : commies, olies, and the battle for California's heartland / John Putnam

On the Grapes of wrath / by Jeffrey Charles

Steinbeck's reporting for the San Francisco news / by Charles Wollenberg

Come back, Tom Joad / by William Deverell

Of mice and men, mice and beans, and laughing tomatoes : Steinbeck and Mexican-American children's authors / Phillip Serrato

Steinbeck's trace / by Francisco X. Alarcón

Boring a reader to death / by Hernán Moreno-Hinojosa

Untitled / by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Introduction : Watching Steinbeck's ethnic eye / William A. Nericcio

Steinbeck and the construction of Chinese American identities / by Paul Wong

From caricature to character : Italians in the writing of John Steinbeck / by Fred Gardaphé

If Steinbeck was alive today, would he be a vigilante Minuteman, a border rights activist, a Santa Fe New Age mystic, Zapatista, arm-chair humanist and all, none, or some of the above? / by Arturo J. Aldama

Iconic, ironic, bubonic : apprehending John Steinbeck's white ethnics / by Michael Harper

Introductions, Joyce Gattas and Arthur Ollman

Picturing Steinbeck and more / by Louis Hock

The wrath of a nation : reading The grapes of wrath, 1939-2007 / by Susan Shillingslaw.

Notes:

Contributions to a conference entitled "An Enduring Voice for California: a Celebration of John Steinbeck", held April-May, 2007, at San Diego State University; organized by the University's College of Arts and Letters.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1879691892

9781879691896

OCLC:

375198138