Sigrid Anderson

Land of Sunshine

Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how regional periodical fiction offered agency to women—and the implications for the region and its populace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781496221988
• ISBN-10: 1496221982
• Artikelnr.: 68579314

Autorenporträt

Sigrid Anderson is the librarian for English language and literature at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library and a lecturer in the Department of American Culture. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Creating the Land of Sunshine
1. Land of Sunshine’s Western Story: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the
Poetry of Expansion
2. Ornaments of Ethnicity: Making a Typographic Case for Western Identity
3. Indigenous Geographies: Mapping Mary Austin’s The Blue Moon and The
Truscott Luck
4. Finding a Place for the “Vanishing Indian”: Land Dispossession in
Constance Goddard Du Bois’s A Soul in Bronze
5. Beatriz Bellido de Luna’s Romance Plots: Exposing the Erasure of Mexican
Land Ownership in California
Conclusion: Who Gets to Tell the Story in Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far’s
Chinatown?
Notes
Bibliography
Index