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ISBN13: | 9781496221988 |
ISBN10: | 1496221982 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 198 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 440 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 22 photographs, 14 illustrations, index |
683 |
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Land of Sunshine
Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication: 1 July 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth Over Boards
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Short description:
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.
Long description:
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.
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 peers into the settler practices that underwrote promotional periodicals like Land of Sunshine. Through deft readings of the pushback evidenced in women’s local color writing, Anderson reminds us that even the most triumphalist of booster developers had their critics.”—Krista Comer, author of Surfer Girls in the New World Order
Table of Contents:
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
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