Left in the West : literature, culture, and progressive politics in the American West / edited by Gioia Woods.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woods, Gioia, 1968- editor.

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--West (U.S.)--History.

Politics and literature.

Right and left (Political science) in literature.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Literature, Culture, and the Left in the American West; Part I: Left Movements: Institutions and Ideologies; 1. "Activism Brings Out the Best in All of Us": Toward a History of Peace and Justice Movements in Utah from the 1960s to the Present; 2. Deep Ecology in Humboldt County: Bill Devall and a Philosophy for Action; 3. "An International, Dissident, Insurgent Ferment": Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Left Coast; 4. The Traditional Roots of Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads

5. Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running: Between Chicano Nationalism and the LeftPart II: Left Readings: Rewriting Region and Radicalism; 6. Eschaton of Abundance: Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think as Transcendentalist Satire; 7. Mari Sandoz: A Writer's Politics; 8. "Poisons Up to the Waist in a Junkyard of Breaking Machines": Peter Berg, Bioregional Ethics, and the Trouble with the Master's Tools; 9. Contact Points: The Roadside Diner's Machinery of Work in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; 10. "The Queen of the Mad Frontier": Settler Colonialism and Jack Spicer's Queer Politics

Part III: Left in Transit: Success and Limitations11. New Bohemias, California Style: The Intimate and Global Networks of Photographic Modernism; 12. "Backward in Time and Forward in Dream of Unknown Memory": Deborah Miranda's Unsettling Colonial Genealogies; 13. Leaving the West for the Left: Louise Thompson Patterson, the New Negro Movement, and Black Women's Activism; 14. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Race, and the California Suffrage and Women's Club Movements, 1896-1911; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; About the Editor

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Left in the West.

ISBN:

9781943859948

1943859949

Publisher Number:

40028740786

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.