Many Californias : literature from the Golden State /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Western literature series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Early California : First voices ; Hispanic California ; American incursion and the Gold Rush ; Richard Henry Dana ; Louisa Smith Clapp ; John Rollin Ridge ; Bret Harte ; Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) ; Ambrose Bierce
- The rise of the regions : Greater Bay Area ; Jack London ; Frank Norris ; Ina Coolbrith ; Joaquín Miller ; Edwin Markham ; Toshio Mori
- Southland : Helen Hunt Jackson ; Harry Leon Wilson ; Lawrence Clark Powell ; Hildegard Flanner ; Raymond Chandler
- Heartland : William Saroyan ; John Steinbeck ; William Everson ; Arnold Rojas
- Wilderness California : John Muir ; Mary Hunter Austin ; Robinson Jeffers
- Fantasy California : Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo ; Walt Whitman ; Nathaniel West
- Interlude: the San Francisco renaissance : Allen Ginsberg ; Jack Kerouac ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Kenneth Rexroth ; Robert Duncan ; Bob Kaufman
- A contemporary sampler : Gary Snyder ; Joan Didion ; Floyd Salas ; Maxine Hong Kingston ; Leonard Nathan ; Cyra McFadden ; Wallace Stegner ; Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel ; Hisaye Yamamoto ; Gerald Locklin ; Luis Valdez ; Wanda Coleman ; Leonard Gardner ; Gary Soto ; T. Coraghessan Boyle ; Kate Braverman ; Gerald Haslam ; Charles Bukowski ; Ella Leffland ; Diane Wakoski ; Richard Rodriguez ; James D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and John Korty ; Amy Tan
- The Fresno poets : DeWayne Rail ; Dixie Salazar ; Jon Veinberg ; Ernesto Trejo ; Roberta Spear ; Charles W. Moulton ; Luis Omar Salinas.