Over the Edge: Remapping the American West - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520211480 ISBN 13 : 9780520211483

Editeur : University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of essays challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West. Essay topics range from tourism to immigration, from environmental battles to inter-ethnic relations, and from law to film. The collection reads the West through "Ben-Hur" and the films of Mae West; revises the western literary canon to include the works of African- American and Mexican-American writers; examines the implications of miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements; and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and Japanese-American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan cannery workers in community life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Valerie J. Matsumoto is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (1993). Blake Allmendinger is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520211480
• ISBN 13: 9780520211483
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 411
• Éditeur: Matsumoto Valerie J., Allmendinger Blake
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