Ebook: California & the fictions of capital
Author: Henderson George L.
- Tags: American literature -- California -- History and criticism, Capitalism and literature -- California, Capital -- California -- History, California -- Historical geography, California -- Economic conditions, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, American literature, Capital, Capitalism and literature, Economic history, Historical geography, California, Letterkunde, Amerikaans, Kapitalisme, Economische situatie, Kapitaal
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, California, California.
- Language: English
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These essays on California's economy, culture, and literature between the 1880s and 1920s show how rural places were made over in the image of capital. The story told here is of the real and imaginary spaces that capital occupied, including its encounters with the realities and representations of race, gender, and class. Beginning with the geography and political economy of agrarian capitalism, Henderson moves on to Read more...