...Merry Ovnick Duke University Press 2007 Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California . By Dydia DeLyser. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxiii, 256 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95. Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural...

... book. Shedding so much light on sources that have re- ceived so little attention, Writing Indians helps us to more thoroughly appreci- ate the lives of Native Americans who lived in an exciting but troubling time in American history. Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge Culture...

...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...

... that defy the vision of national space organizing U.S. hegemony” (28). The book is organized geographically from east to west and deals in the first two chapters with Indian removal in the Southeast and Great Lakes region and in the second two with the annexation of Mexico and California...

.... Williams’s once-popular autobiography chronicling his experiences as a fugitive slave and California gold miner knits together stories from the Underground Railroad with firsthand observations on Chinese labor migration and Indian resettlement in the West. This essay reads Williams’s narrative alongside...

... friendship between a Native American, a Chinese boy, and an adventurous white boy that develops in Humboldt County, California. Read together, these texts demonstrate how racial stereotypes colluded with the policing of public and private spaces to reproduce racial hierarchies in the wake of Emancipation...

...Diarmuid Hester Abstract In this article I consider the impact of New York school poetry and New York punk rock on the Los Angeles literary scene of the 1970s and 1980s. I explore a distinct group of poets that emerged around a Venice Beach, California, literary arts center but was profoundly East...

...) and The Pit (1903) offer a case study of a naturalist Capitalocene aesthetics, one capable of capturing global capitalism’s destructive planetary agency. As a student at the University of California at Berkeley, Frank Norris was exposed to Joseph LeConte’s influential theory of the Psychozoic era, a proto...

..., if not their political executives. Closer to our academic homes in Madison, Wisconsin, and Davis, California, some of the most significant American public protests in many years have highlighted accelerating trends of economic inequality resulting from a variety of interlinked causes ranging...

... in Hawaii: Mark Twain’’ California materialized into a coastal center of capi- talist accumulation and U.S. Pacific Rim presence with the discovery of gold in 1848 and the completion of the transcontinental...

... The proportion of U.S. students starting college who actually finish is now 56 percent, placing them twenty- ninth out of the thirty countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).4 California, one of the world’s wealthiest places, has seen one of the most...

... chicana en la década 1965-1975 .” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Mexico D.F., September 26 . Alurista Papers, Santa Barbara, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives 21 , box 6, folder 4 . Bhaba Homi K. 1990 . Nation and Narration . New...

...Bryan Wagner By Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2001. x, 260 pp. $27.50. By Edward J. Ingebretsen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xvi, 341 pp. $40.00. 2003 214 American Literature...

...Peter Kvidera By Edvige Giunta. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xix, 203 pp. Cloth, $59.95;paper, $18.95. By Paula M. L. Moya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $17.95. By Yunte Huang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California...

... mention was awarded to Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis, for “Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence” ( June 2010, 333–60). Members of the judging committee were Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz (Chair); Colleen Glenney Boggs...

... communities through and against that institution. However, despite the abundance of Asian American novels set within universities, such as Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel (2010) at the University of California, Berkeley or Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student (1998) at Sewanee: The University of the South...

... the plan- tation, not as a historical phenomenon, but as a force shaping the American present. Katie McKee, University of Mississippi DOI 10.1215/00029831-1266153 Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp...