California Literature and the Geography of Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Crumpton Winter (English Department, California State University, Stanislaus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 232-249 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2022.2114285 |
| OpenAlex | W4294730910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay considers how California novelists have depicted the state as a locale of defeat – where, if you are on the wrong side of history, the land can be stolen out from under you. The first part of this article considers several early novels that address the 19th-Century power struggles of the state: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,, Ramona, The Squatter and the Don, and The Octopus. These novels reveal that the state was shaped by white supremacy, monopolies, suspect legislation, and discriminatory federal policies. The second part of the essay illuminates more recent narratives of dispossession in California, including If He Hollers Let Him Go, American Son, Under the Feet of Jesus, When the Emperor Was Divine, and There There. This study also incorporates theories of cultural geography, drawing from the writings of Alex Hunt and Hsuan L. Hsu, who make connections between space and power, and examine the processes and significance of regional transformation
Adventure · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Emperor · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
California and the Fictions of Capital
The Erotics of Racialization
American Literary Geographies
Racial Faultlines
The City of Black Angels
Sundown Towns
Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta
Black Los Angeles
California
Universality at War
"Transgressing Race and Community in Chester Himes's "If He Hollers Let Him Go
White Slaves" and the "Arrogant Mestiza
Contradictory Impulses
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |