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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Monique McDadePublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496232960ISBN 10: 1496232968 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 01 March 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Frontier Ethic and the American Paradox 1. “Autoethnographic” Heroines: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Sentimental Novels, Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don 2. The Liberal Fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Sentimental Advocacy in Ramona 3. Sui Sin Far’s Genre of Intervention: The Regional Sketch and the “Real” in Realism 4. An Autobiography of Western American Integration: Eva Rutland and Her Alternative Politics of Respectability Conclusion: Joan Didion’s Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Deep Story” Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsCalifornia Dreams and American Contradictions shows great intellectual agility in its ability to make complex connections using fluent and highly readable language. It is deeply intersectional. . . . It is a book that any scholar on the topic will want to read from cover to cover, and it opens new ground for future scholarship. -Victoria Lamont, author of Westerns: A Women's History Especially in our current moment of reckoning with the legacies of exclusion and racism in the United States and globally, this study performs essential work of historical recovery and intervention. It makes a substantial contribution to feminist critical regionalism in the U.S. West and to feminist and American studies more broadly. It engages a powerful set of theoretical tools to create a sophisticated argument across disciplines and fields of study. -Audrey Goodman, author of A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing """McDade's study is an interesting and thought-provoking one, showing how a range of women writers of various ethnicities and across a span of years and genres dealt with dominant literary forms and cultural agendas to subvert these agendas and present, either subtly or directly, a message of greater inclusion.""—Margaret Doane, Western American Literature “California Dreams and American Contradictions shows great intellectual agility in its ability to make complex connections using fluent and highly readable language. It is deeply intersectional. . . . It is a book that any scholar on the topic will want to read from cover to cover, and it opens new ground for future scholarship.”—Victoria Lamont, author of Westerns: A Women’s History “Especially in our current moment of reckoning with the legacies of exclusion and racism in the United States and globally, this study performs essential work of historical recovery and intervention. It makes a substantial contribution to feminist critical regionalism in the U.S. West and to feminist and American studies more broadly. It engages a powerful set of theoretical tools to create a sophisticated argument across disciplines and fields of study.”—Audrey Goodman, author of A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women’s Writing" Author InformationMonique McDade is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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