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