Contributions to a conference entitled "An Enduring Voice for California: a Celebration of John Steinbeck", held April-May, 2007, at San Diego State University; organized by the University's College of Arts and Letters. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
John Steinbeck's Trojan horse : an introduction to Homer from Salinas / by William Anthony Nericcio -- Steinbeck's Wrath : commies, olies, and the battle for California's heartland / John Putnam -- On the Grapes of wrath / by Jeffrey Charles -- Steinbeck's reporting for the San Francisco news / by Charles Wollenberg -- Come back, Tom Joad / by William Deverell -- Of mice and men, mice and beans, and laughing tomatoes : Steinbeck and Mexican-American children's authors / Phillip Serrato -- Steinbeck's trace / by Francisco X. Alarcón -- Boring a reader to death / by Hernán Moreno-Hinojosa -- Untitled / by Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Introduction : Watching Steinbeck's ethnic eye / William A. Nericcio -- Steinbeck and the construction of Chinese American identities / by Paul Wong -- From caricature to character : Italians in the writing of John Steinbeck / by Fred Gardaphé -- If Steinbeck was alive today, would he be a vigilante Minuteman, a border rights activist, a Santa Fe New Age mystic, Zapatista, arm-chair humanist and all, none, or some of the above? / by Arturo J. Aldama -- Iconic, ironic, bubonic : apprehending John Steinbeck's white ethnics / by Michael Harper -- Respolndent: Joanna Brooks -- Field work: documenting California's migrant farm labor experience 1935 to 2003 -- Introductions, Joyce Gattas and Arthur Ollman -- Picturing Steinbeck and more / by Louis Hock -- The wrath of a nation : reading The grapes of wrath, 1939-2007 / by Susan Shillingslaw.
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