Land of Sunshine - Sigrid Anderson

Land of Sunshine

Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical

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Buch | Hardcover
198 Seiten
2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2198-8 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how regional periodical fiction offered agency to women—and the implications for the region and its populace.
Although denied the right to vote, late nineteenth-century women writers engaged in debates over land settlement and expansion through literary texts in regional periodicals. In “Land of Sunshine”: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical, Sigrid Anderson uncovers the political fictions of writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Austin, Constance Goddard DuBois, Beatriz Bellido de Luna, and Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), all of whom were contributors to the Southern California periodical Land of Sunshine.

In this magazine, which generally touted the superiority of the West and its white settlers, women authors undercut triumphalist narratives of racial superiority and rapid development by focusing on the stories of hardship experienced by the marginalized communities displaced by white expansion. By telling stories from the points of view of marginalized peoples who had been disempowered in the political sphere and shaping those stories to offer solutions to land settlement questions, these women writers used literature to make a political point. “Land of Sunshine” unpacks the competing visions of Southern California embedded in this periodical while revealing the essential role of magazines in place-making.
 

Sigrid Anderson is the librarian for English language and literature at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library and a lecturer in the Department of American Culture. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing.  

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Creating the Land of Sunshine
1. Land of Sunshine’s Western Story: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Poetry of Expansion
2. Ornaments of Ethnicity: Making a Typographic Case for Western Identity
3. Indigenous Geographies: Mapping Mary Austin’s The Blue Moon and The Truscott Luck
4. Finding a Place for the “Vanishing Indian”: Land Dispossession in Constance Goddard Du Bois’s A Soul in Bronze
5. Beatriz Bellido de Luna’s Romance Plots: Exposing the Erasure of Mexican Land Ownership in California
Conclusion: Who Gets to Tell the Story in Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far’s Chinatown?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 22 photographs, 14 illustrations, index
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4962-2198-2 / 1496221982
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-2198-8 / 9781496221988
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