Sarah D. Wald

The Nature of California (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart to Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, many novels, plays, movies, and songs have dramatized the brutality and hardships of working in the California fields. Little scholarship has focused on what these cultural productions tell us about who belongs in America, and in what ways they are allowed to belong. In The Nature of California, Sarah Wald analyzes this legacy and its consequences by examining the paradoxical representations of California farmers and farmworkers from the Dust Bowl migration to present-day movements for food justice and immigrant rights.

Analyzing fiction, nonfiction, news coverage, activist literature, memoirs, and more, Wald gives us a new way of thinking through questions of national belonging by probing the relationships among race, labor, and landownership. Bringing together ecocriticism and critical race theory, she pays special attention to marginalized groups, examining how Japanese American journalists, Filipino workers, United Farm Workers members, and contemporary immigrants-rights activists, among others, pushed back against the standard narratives of landownership and citizenship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295806587
• Artikelnr.: 49045986

Autorenporträt

Sarah D. Wald is assistant professor of English and environmental studies at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "To the Farmer in All of Us": Agricultural Citizenship as
Racial Gatekeeping
1. "Settlers Galore, but No Free Land": White Citizenship and the Right to
Land Ownership in "Factories in the Field" and "Of Human Kindness"
2. From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration
3. The "Clouded Citizenship" of Rooted Families: Japanese American
Agrarianism in "Rafu Shimpo", "Kashu Mainichi", and "Treadmill"
4. "The Earth Trembled for Days": Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in
Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction
5. "The American Earth": Reclaiming Land and Nation in "America Is in the
Heart" and "Strangers in Our Fields"
6. "Elixirs of Death": The United Farm Workers and the Modern Environmental
Movement
7. Fit Citizens and Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship in the
Alternative Food Movement
Epilogue "Tienes una Madre Aquí": Environmentalism and Migration in the
Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index