Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: John Steinbeck in the 1930s: living under the gun / Rick Wartzman -- Introduction: the dangerous ambivalence of John Steinbeck / Simon Stow -- Revolutionary conservative, conservative revolutionary? John Steinbeck and The grapes of wrath / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh -- Star signals: John Steinbeck in the American protest literature tradition / Zoe Trodd -- The novelist as playwright: adaptation, politics, and the plays of John Steinbeck / Donna Kornhaber -- Steinbeck and the tragedy of progress / Adrienne Akins Warfield -- Group man and the limits of working-class politics: the political vision of Steinbeck's In dubious battle / Charles Williams -- The indifference of nature and the cruelty of wealth / Michael T. Gibbons -- "The technique of building worlds": exodian nation formation in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / Roxanne Harde -- Focusing on the migrant: the contextualization of Dorothea Lange's photographs of the John Steinbeck Committee / James R. Swenson -- Participatory parables: cinema, social action, and Steinbeck's Mexican dilemma / Marijane Osborn -- "Not afraid of being heroic": Bruce Springsteen's John Steinbeck / Lauren Onkey -- Retelling an American political tale: a comparison of literary, cinematic, and musical versions of The grapes of wrath / Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh -- Patriotic ironies: John Steinbeck's wartime service to his country / Mimi R. Gladstein and James H. Meredith -- John Steinbeck's shifting view of America: from Travels with Charley to America and Americans / Robert S. Hughes -- "Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?" The tragic patriotism of The winter of our discontent / Simon Stow.
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