Over the edge : remapping the American West / edited by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matsumoto, Valerie J., editor.

Allmendinger, Blake, editor.

University of California, Los Angeles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--West (U.S.).

Regionalism.

Sex role--West (U.S.).

Sex role.

West (U.S.)--Civilization.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.) : 11 figs., 3 maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1999]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing essays ranging widely on topics from tourism to immigration, from environmental battles to interethnic relations, and from law to film. Taken together, the essays reassess the contributions of a diverse and multicultural America to the West, as they link western issues to global frontiers. Featuring the latest work by some of the best new writers both inside and outside academia, the original essays in Over the Edge confront the traditional field of western American studies with a series of radical, speculative, and sometimes outrageous challenges. The collection reads the West through Ben-Hur and the films of Mae West; revises the western American literary canon to include the works of African American and Mexican American writers; examines the implications of miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements; and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and Japanese American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan cannery workers in community life. From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the bo.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. SEEING AND BEING SEEN

2. TOGA! TOGA!

3. SACRED AND PROFANE

4. “I THINK OUR ROMANCE IS SPOILED,” OR, CROSSING GENRES

5. A WESTERNER IN SEARCH OF “NEGRO-NESS”

6. “DOMESTIC” LIFE IN THE DIGGINGS

7. MAKING MEN IN THE WEST

8. CHANGING WOMAN

9. MOBILITY, WOMEN, AND THE WEST

10. PLAGUE IN LOS ANGELES, 1924

11. THE TAPIA-SAIKI INCIDENT

12. RACE, GENDER, AND THE PRIVILEGES OF PROPERTY

13. AMERICAN INDIAN BLOOD QUANTUM REQUIREMENTS

14. CRUCIFIXION, SLAVERY, AND DEATH

15. “PONGO MI DEMANDA”

16. JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE CREATION OF URBAN NISEI CULTURE IN THE 1930's

17. COMPETING COMMUNITIES AT WORK

18. PERCEIVING, EXPERIENCING, AND EXPRESSING THE SACRED

19. DEAD WEST

20. LA FRONTERA DEL NORTE

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520920118

0520920112

9780585289366

0585289360

OCLC:

1163878971