California dreams and American contradictions : women writers and the Western ideal /

California dreams and American contradictions : women writers and the Western ideal /

"Monique McDade's study examines a group of diverse women writers of the American West from an intersectional standpoint to understand the progressive narratives the West tells about itself"--

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Author / Creator: McDade, Monique (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Subjects:
1800-1999
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Progress in literature.
American fiction
American fiction > Women authors
Literature
Progress in literature
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism
Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a frontier ethic and the American paradox
  • "Autoethnographic" heroines: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's sentimental novels, Who would have thought it? and The squatter and the don
  • The liberal fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson's sentimental advocacy in Ramona
  • Sui Sin Far's genre of intervention: the regional sketch and the "real" in realism
  • 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".

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