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The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945
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The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945
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The Literature of California is a landmark publication—unmatched by any existing collection and distinguished by its breadth, variety of sources, and historical sweep. The editors have been refreshingly inclusive and imaginative in their selection: some of the writers are internationally known, others are anthologized here for the first time. The richness of material, ranging from Native American origin myths to Hollywood novels dissecting the American Dream; from the familiar voices of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and William Saroyan to the less-well-known narratives of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Josephine Miles, and Jade Snow Wong—all of it captures the spirit and scope of the state itself. This first volume of the comprehensive two-volume anthology is divided into four parts. The first includes stories, legends, and songs of the indigenous tribes. The second section comprises letters, diaries, reports, and travel narratives that trace a century of exploration, discovery, and conquest. Part III includes Mother Lode tales by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, the first signs of California poetry, the rise of narrative by California women, the nature writing of John Muir and Mary Austin, and some of the earliest prose from writers of Asian background, as well as the maturing fiction of Jack London and Frank Norris. Part IV traces the period between the World Wars, when California literature came fully into its own. A lively introduction contextualizes each section, and concise biographical material is included for each writer. Volume Two, to be published in 2007, concentrates on the second half of the twentieth-century, during which California became one of the most active literary regions in the world. A colossal contribution to the culture of the state, The Literature of California broadens our sense of this region's richness, both past and present, offering new ways of perceiving history, community, and oneself.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520222120 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 12/05/2000 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 653 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Jack Hicks teaches California literature and directs the Graduate Creative Program at the University of California, Davis. James D. Houston's seven books of fiction/nonfiction include Continental Drift (California, 1996) and The Last Paradise (1998), which won the American Book Award. Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior (1976), China Men (1980), and Tripmaster Monkey (1989). An early draft of her fourth novel, The Fifth Book of Peace, was destroyed in a fire; the restored version will be published in 2000-2001. Al Young's twenty books include African American literary anthologies, memoirs, collections of poetry, and the novels Sitting Pretty (1976) and Who Is Angelina? (California, 1996).
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION PART ONE . INDIAN BEGINNINGS ORIGINS AND THE WAY OF THE WORLD The Creation (Maidu) The Creation: Turtle Island (Maidu) Origin of the Mountains (Yokuts) The Three Worlds (Chumash) The Making of Man (Chumash) Initiation Song (Yuki) Cottontail and the Sun (Owens Valley Paiute) LOVE, MARRIAGE, FAMILY Puberty Dance Song (Wintu) Three Love Songs (Wintu) About-the-House Girl (Karok) The Girl Who Married Rattlesnake (Pomo) The Man and the Owls (Yokuts) Coyote Cooks His Daughter (Cupeño) ORDER, COMMUNITY An Ordered World (Miwok) Prayer for Good Fortune (Yokuts) Feast Oration (Wintu) CHANTS, DREAMS, AND DANCES To the Edge of the Earth (Wintu) Rattlesnake Ceremony Song (Yokuts) Dream Time (Ohlone) Four Dream Cult Songs (Wintu) Dancing on the Brink of the World (Costanoan) OLD AGE, DEATH, AND THE AFTERLIFE Old Gambler’s Song (Konkow) Grandfather’s Prayer (Wintu) Death Song (Cupeño) Burial Oration (Wintu) The Soul’s Journey to Similaqsa (Chumash) The Land of the Dead (Serrano) Summons to a Mourning Ceremony (Miwok) PART TWO . ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST, 1769–1870 GARCI RODRIGUEZ ORDONEZ DE MONTALVO “The Queen of California” from Las Sergas de Esplandián (c. 1510) FRAY JUAN CRESPI “The Naming of Santa Ana and Los Angeles” from Fray Juan Crespí: Missionary Explorer of the Pacific Coast (1769) PEDRO FAGES “Report to the Viceroy” from A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California (1773) JEAN FRANCOIS DE GALOUP DE LA PEROUSE “A Visit to Carmel” from Voyage autour du Monde (1786) NIKOLAI PETROVICH REZANOV A Letter to the Minister of Commerce (1806) JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH “The Trapper and the Padre” from The Southwest Expeditions of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California (1826) PABLO TAC “Our Games and Dances” from Conversion of the San Luiseños of Alta California (c. 1835) RICHARD HENRY DANA “Haole and Kanaka” from Two Years before the Mast (1840) JOHN CHARLES FREMONT “Some Points in Geography” from Report of the Exploring Mission to Oregon and North California (1845) LANDSFORD HASTINGS From The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California (1845) MARIANO GUADALUPE “The Bear Flag Party” from Recuerdos Históricos y Personales Tocante a la Alta California (1846) EDWIN BRYANT “The California Battalion” from What I Saw in California (1846) SARAH ELENOR ROYCE From A Frontier Lady (1849) BAYARD TAYLOR “San Francisco by Day and Night” from El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire (1849) LOUISE CLAPPE [DAME SHIRLEY] “A Trip into the Mines” from The Shirley Letters (1852) ELIZA W.B. FARNHAM From California In-Doors and Out (1856) JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE [YELLOW BIRD] From The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) T'TCESA [LUCY YOUNG] “Lucy’s Story” from Out of the Past: A True Indian Story (c. 1862) WILLIAM HENRY BREWER “Los Angeles and Environs” from Up and Down California, 1860–64 (1864) CLARENCE KING “Mount Shasta” from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) PART THREE . THE RISE OF A CALIFORNIA LITERATURE, 1865–1914 SAMUEL CLEMENS [MARK TWAIN] The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867) From Roughing It (1872) BRET HARTE The Outcasts of Poker Flats (1869) CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Old Monterey (c. 1870) INA COOLBRITH Copa de Oro (The California Poppy) The Mariposa Lily Millennium Retrospect (In Los Angeles) (c. 1880) JOAQUIN MILLER “Californian” from Songs of the Sierra (1872) AMBROSE BIERCE Moxon’s Master (1893) MARIA AMPARO RUIZ DE BURTON From The Squatter and the Don (1885) THOCMETONY [SARAH WINNEMUCCA] From Life among the Piutes (1883) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON From The Silverado Squatters (1883) HELEN HUNT JACKSON From Ramona (1884) JOHIAH ROYCE From California: A Study of American Character (1886) MARY HALLOCK FOOTE How the Pump Stopped at the Morning Watch (c. 1890) EDWIN MARKHAM The Man with the Hoe (1899) The Sower (1901) JOHN MUIR From The Mountains of California (1894) GEORGE STERLING Beyond the Breakers The Black Vulture (c. 1900) GERTRUDE ATHERTON From The Californians (1898) EDITH MAUD EATON In the Land of the Free (1912) YONE NOGUCHI Some Stories of My Western Life Ah, Who Says So? My Poetry (1897) CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS “Walking to Los Angeles” from “As I Remember” (unpublished ms., c. 1910) L. FRANK BAUM From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) ANONYMOUSE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS a Four Poems of Angel Island and Chinatown (c. 1910–1940) JACK LONDON From Martin Eden (1908) FRANK MORRIS From The Octopus (1901) MARY AUSTIN From The Land of Little Rain (1903) PART FOUR . DREAMS AND AWAKENINGS, 1915–1945 ROBINSON JEFFERS Continent’s End To the Stone Cutters Tor House Hurt Hawks Rock and Hawk The Purse-Seine Carmel Point (c. 1924–1934) JAIME DE ANGULO From Indians in Overalls (1950) UPTON SINCLAIR From Oil! (1927) DASHIELL HAMMETT From The Maltese Falcon (1930) WALLACE THURMAN From The Blacker the Berry (1929) YVOR WINTERS See Los Angeles First The Slow Pacific Swell John Sutter Moonlight Alert The California Oaks (c. 1929–1939) JAMES M. CAIN From The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) WILLIAM SAROYAN The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934) From Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter and Whole Notes (1936) HORACE MCCOY From They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) GEORGE R. STEWART From Ordeal by Hunger (1936) JOHN STEINBECK From The Grapes of Wrath (1939) CAREY MCWILLIAMS From Factories in the Field (1939) HILDEGARDE FLANNER Noon on Alameda Street 12 O’Clock Freight Lava Has Meaning The Buck Hawk Is a Woman (c. 1929–1939) JOSEPHINE MILES Tehachapi South The Directors Now That April’s Here City Subdivision (c. 1935–1939) JOHN FANTE From Ask the Dust (1939) RAYMOND CHANDLER From The Big Sleep (1939) NATHANAEL WEST From The Day of the Locust (1939) F. SCOTT FITZGERALD From The Love of the Last Tycoon ([1941] 1994) M.F.K. FISHER The First Oyster (1943) IDWAL JONES From The Vineyard (1942) TOSHIO MORI The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts The Eggs of the World He Who Has the Laughing Face (1949) JADE SNOW WONG From Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) CARLOS BULOSAN From America Is in the Heart (1946) CHESTER HIMES From If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) FURTHER READING ABOUT THE EDITORS PERMISSIONS AND CREDITS INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLESFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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