Blake Allmendinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blake Allmendinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blake |
| FAMILY NAME | Allmendinger |
| SIGNATURE | ALLMENDINGER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Map and the Menu
This article considers Bernard DeVoto’s defense of Frederick Jackson Turner’s influential essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893). DeVoto and other western historians championed Turner’s thesis celebrating westward expansion and Manifest Destiny at the same time that Julia Child was living in France, writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). While a group of heterosexual males were reviving Turner’s account …
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The erasure of race in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None
Chester Himes chose a line from a children’s nursery rhyme for the title of his novel If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945). The phrase first appeared in “Eena, meena, mina, mo,” a late nineteenth-centur
A History of California Literature
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading his…
The Two Mrs. Cheneys
This commentary reviews Sisters, Lynne Cheney's Western historical novel. The novel seems to be at odds with Cheney's conservative political views. It considers feminism,lesbianism, and Native Americans in a positive light and is critical of U.S. empire and capitalism as practiced on the early Wyoming frontier. The author considers why Cheney may have felt freer to explore such topics in literature, even though she has not embraced these liberal …
Unsettling the Literary West
Book Review| March 01 2005 Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship; In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930 By Nathaniel Lewis. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp.$49.95.By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003. 299 pp. Cloth, $59.95;paper, $26.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This S…
Through the Looking Glass
In this meandering think piece, the author considers the differences and similarities between western historians and literary critics, taking into consideration intellectual training, ideological biases, and methodological practices. In the process, he frequently changes his mind, contradicts himself, probably confuses the reader, and most certainly makes a mess of his argument. Those without patience or a sense of humor should think twice before…
Invisible Natives
Book Review| December 01 2003 Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western; Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature By Armando José Prats. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xxi,317 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95.By Michael K. Johnson. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2002. ix, 293 pp.$34.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Lit…
The Plow and the Pen
Research Article| September 01 2003 The Plow and the Pen: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 545–569. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-545 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permi…
Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s
Journal Article Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail Get access Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. By Stanfield Peter. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ix + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
West of the Border
Book Review| June 01 2001 West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth,$59.95; paper, $24.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 429–430. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-429 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination
Journal Article Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination. By Michael Allen. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998 and Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Ed. by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Get access Brian W. Dippie Brian W. Dippie University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
Over the Edge
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Journal Article Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. By Richard W. Slatta. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xvi, 320 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8061-2971-9.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 718–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567857 Publishe…
Cowboy Justice
Journal Article Cowboy Justice: Tale of a Texas Lawman Get access Cowboy Justice: Tale of a Texas Lawman. By Gober Jim, edited by Gober James R. Price B. Byron. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1997. xxiii + 327 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. $28.95.) Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarte…
Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
Journal Article Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. By David Dary. (New York: Knopf, 1995. xii, 352 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-56178-3.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945019 Published: 01 September 1996
By the Sweat of the Brow
Journal Article By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. By Nicholas K. Bromell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 278 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-07554-0.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1720, https://doi…
The Cowboy
Journal Article The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture. By Blake Allmendinger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 201 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-19-507243-X.) Get access Paula Mitchell Marks Paula Mitchell Marks St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page 718, https://doi.org/10.23…
Place and Vision
Deadwood Dick
Playing Cowboys
Journal Article Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. By Robert Murray Davis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xxiv + 168 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-8061-2402-4.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/…
The Cowboy
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Journal Article Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. By Richard W. Slatta. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xvi, 320 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8061-2971-9.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 718–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567857 Publishe…
Place and Vision
Deadwood Dick
Playing Cowboys
Journal Article Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. By Robert Murray Davis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xxiv + 168 pp. $19.95, ISBN 0-8061-2402-4.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/…
The Cowboy
The Cowboy
Journal Article The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture. By Blake Allmendinger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 201 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-19-507243-X.) Get access Paula Mitchell Marks Paula Mitchell Marks St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page 718, https://doi.org/10.23…
Place and Vision
By the Sweat of the Brow
Journal Article By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America. By Nicholas K. Bromell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 278 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-07554-0.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page 1720, https://doi…
Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
Journal Article Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. By David Dary. (New York: Knopf, 1995. xii, 352 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-394-56178-3.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945019 Published: 01 September 1996
Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers
Journal Article Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. By Richard W. Slatta. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. xvi, 320 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8061-2971-9.) Get access Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 718–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567857 Publishe…
Cowboy Justice
Journal Article Cowboy Justice: Tale of a Texas Lawman Get access Cowboy Justice: Tale of a Texas Lawman. By Gober Jim, edited by Gober James R. Price B. Byron. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1997. xxiii + 327 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. $28.95.) Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarte…
Over the Edge
Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination
Journal Article Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination. By Michael Allen. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998 and Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. Ed. by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Get access Brian W. Dippie Brian W. Dippie University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
West of the Border
Book Review| June 01 2001 West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth,$59.95; paper, $24.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 429–430. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-429 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Emai…
Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s
Journal Article Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail Get access Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. By Stanfield Peter. (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ix + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quar…
Through the Looking Glass
In this meandering think piece, the author considers the differences and similarities between western historians and literary critics, taking into consideration intellectual training, ideological biases, and methodological practices. In the process, he frequently changes his mind, contradicts himself, probably confuses the reader, and most certainly makes a mess of his argument. Those without patience or a sense of humor should think twice before…
Invisible Natives
Book Review| December 01 2003 Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western; Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature By Armando José Prats. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xxi,317 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95.By Michael K. Johnson. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2002. ix, 293 pp.$34.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Lit…
The Plow and the Pen
Research Article| September 01 2003 The Plow and the Pen: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 545–569. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-545 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permi…
Unsettling the Literary West
Book Review| March 01 2005 Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship; In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930 By Nathaniel Lewis. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp.$49.95.By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003. 299 pp. Cloth, $59.95;paper, $26.95. Blake Allmendinger Blake Allmendinger Search for other works by this author on: This S…
The Two Mrs. Cheneys
This commentary reviews Sisters, Lynne Cheney's Western historical novel. The novel seems to be at odds with Cheney's conservative political views. It considers feminism,lesbianism, and Native Americans in a positive light and is critical of U.S. empire and capitalism as practiced on the early Wyoming frontier. The author considers why Cheney may have felt freer to explore such topics in literature, even though she has not embraced these liberal …
A History of California Literature
Blake Allmendinger's A History of California Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This history encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the state's development, from the colonial era to the twenty-first century. Written by a host of leading his…
The erasure of race in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None
Chester Himes chose a line from a children’s nursery rhyme for the title of his novel If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945). The phrase first appeared in “Eena, meena, mina, mo,” a late nineteenth-centur
The Map and the Menu
This article considers Bernard DeVoto’s defense of Frederick Jackson Turner’s influential essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893). DeVoto and other western historians championed Turner’s thesis celebrating westward expansion and Manifest Destiny at the same time that Julia Child was living in France, writing Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). While a group of heterosexual males were reviving Turner’s account …
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Death by hari-kari in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
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