Five fires : race, catastrophe, and the shaping of California
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書誌事項
Five fires : race, catastrophe, and the shaping of California
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1997
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. 263-279
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Fire is a phenomenon both destructive and transforming, its story found in the ruins it leaves behind as well as the survivors that rise from its ashes. In this wholly original study, cultural historian and critic David Wyatt uses the story of fire to tell the story of California. Wyatt focuses this catastrophic history of his native state on five events that swept through California, altering its physical and political landscape and the way both were represented in art and literature.Wyatt begins with the accidental importation and spread of the wild oat in the 1770s, a process that had its human counterpart in the Spanish invaders. He then explores the impact of four other significant events: the Gold Rush, the 1906 earthquake and fire, the postWorld War II defense-industry boom, and the fire of race that erupted in Watts in 1965. This fifth fire, Wyatt claims, has burned all throughout Californias history, and he artfully examines its effects on both the Chinese immmigration experience and the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
With an energetic style, Wyatt shows how all of these events were recorded and responded to in the works of the imagination that have shaped our collective understanding of the Golden State, from the writings of Raymond Chandler and Amy Tan, to the photography of Ansel Adams and the films of Roman Polanski. Five Fires is a provocative and highly entertaining retelling of California history that will prove an important contribution to the history of American culture.
目次
- Prologue
- The Wild Oat: The Spanish and American Conquests
- The Gold Rush: Men Without Women
- Exclusion, the Chinese, and the Daughters Arrival
- The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: The Culture of Spectacle
- The Politics of Water: The Shift South
- World War II: Los Angeles and the Production of Anger
- Relocation, the Japanese, and the Twice Divorced
- From Watts to South Central: Internalizing the Fire
- Epilogue.
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