Regional Literature in the United States, Volume 4: The Pacific Coast
T. Walter Herbert describes regional literature. Jack London and the reinvention of California fiction, his attention to the working class, issues of race, and nonwhite characters from the Pacific Rim. Frank Norris and the writings of naturalists. The promise and the brutality of the western frontier at the turn of the nineteenth century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the idea of an America that is open to possibilities; the beats in San Francisco. The writing of Karen Tei Yamashita, the connections between Asia and America, and the extension of the concept of manifest destiny that went beyond the West Coast and into the Pacific Rim. Gary Pak's nonromantic vision of Hawai'i and his concept of community.
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Participants
Jeanne Campbell Reesman Michael Skau David Palumbo-Liu T. Walter Herbert
