Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1: Left Movements: Institutions and Ideologies
Chapter 1: Activism Brings Out the Best In All of Us
Chapter 2: Deep Ecology in Humboldt County
Chapter 3: An International, Dissident, Insurgent Ferment
Chapter 4: The Traditional Roots of Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads
Chapter 5: Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running
Part 2: Left Readings: Rewriting Region and Radicalism
Chapter 6: Eschaton of Abundance
Chapter 7: Mari Sandoz: A Writer’s Politics
Chapter 8: Poisons Up to the Waist in a Junkyard of Breaking Machines
Chapter 9: Contact Points: The Roadside Diner’s Machinery of Work in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 10: The Queen of the Mad Frontier
Part 3: Left in Transit: Success and Limitations
New Bohemias, California Style: The Intimate and Global Networks of Photographic Modernism
Chapter 12: Backward in Time and Forward in Dream of Unknown Memory
Chapter 13: Leaving the West or the Left: Louise Thompson Patterson, the New Negro Movement, and Black Women’s Activism
Chapter 14: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, Race, and the California Suffrage and Women’s Club Movements, 1896-1911
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
About the Editor