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Five fires : race, catastrophe, and the shaping of California

著者: David Wyatt
出版商: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., ©1997.
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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
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Wyatt, David, 1948-
Five fires.
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1997
(OCoLC)608392580
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所有的著者/提供者: David Wyatt
ISBN: 0201144794 9780201144796
OCLC号码: 36066118
描述: xiv, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: The wild oat: the Spanish and American conquests --
The Gold Rush: men without women --
Exclusion, the Chinese, and the daughter's arrival --
The San Francisco earthquake and fire: the culture of spectacle --
The politics of water: the shift south --
World War II: Low Angeles and the production of anger --
Relocation, the Japanese and the twice divorced --
From Watts to South Central: internalizing the fire.
责任: David Wyatt.
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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 post-World 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 California's history, and he artfully examines its effects on both the Chinese immigration 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.

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