Reclaiming John Steinbeck
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Reclaiming John Steinbeck

Writing for the Future of Humanity

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Reclaiming John Steinbeck

Writing for the Future of Humanity

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John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental crisis, and a growing divide between the powerful and the marginalized. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Steinbeck's work crossed a variety of borders – between the United States and the Global South, between human and nonhuman lifeforms, between science and the arts, and between literature and film – to explore the transformations in consciousness necessary for our survival on a precarious planet. Always seeking new forms to express his ecological and social vision of human interconnectedness and vulnerability, Steinbeck is a writer of urgent concern for the twenty-first century, even as he was haunted by the legacies of racism and injustice in the American West.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108945943
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction Loving and Hating Steinbeck
  10. Chapter 1 Short Stories in School and Lab: “Tularecito” and “The Snake”
  11. Chapter 2 Drought, Climate, and Race in the West: To a God Unknown
  12. Chapter 3 Race and Revision: “The Vigilante” and “Johnny Bear”
  13. Chapter 4 Becoming Animal: Theories of Mind in The Red Pony
  14. Chapter 5 What Is It Like to Be a Plant? “The Chrysanthemums” and “The White Quail”
  15. Chapter 6 On Not Being a Modernist: Disability and Performance in Of Mice and Men
  16. Chapter 7 Emergence and Failure: The Middleness of The Grapes of Wrath
  17. Chapter 8 Borderlands: Extinction and the New World Outlook in Sea of Cortez
  18. Chapter 9 Mexican Revolutions: The Forgotten Village, The Pearl, and the Global South
  19. Epilogue The Aftertaste of Cannery Row
  20. Notes
  21. Index