Monique McDade

California Dreams and American Contradictions

Women Writers and the Western Ideal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In California Dreams and American Contradictions Monique McDade 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781496232960
• ISBN-10: 1496232968
• Artikelnr.: 64054855

Autorenporträt

Monique McDade is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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
Index