Blake Allmendinger

A history of California literature

1. Tales of native California Paul Apodaca 2. Indigenous peoples under colonial rule Lisbeth Haas 3. Spanish and Mexican literature Vincent Perez 4. White explorers and travelers David Wyatt 5. The gold rush Nicolas Witschi 6. California nature writers Steven Pavlos Holmes 7. The black frontier Aparajita Nanda 8. California as political topography: Asian American literature before 1980 Catherine Fung 9. Mexican American literature Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez 10. The protest fiction of Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and John Steinbeck Susan Shillingsaw 11. Dreams, denial, and Depression-era fiction Jan Goggans 12. Modernism in the early twentieth century Geneva Gano 13. The hard-boiled California novel William Marling 14. Writing the hidden California Phillip Round 15. The Beats Kurt Hemmer 16. Bay area politics, 1944-81 Kaplan Page Harris 17. Los Angeles poetry from the McCarthy to the punk eras Brian Kim Stefans 18. African American uprising Charles Toombs 19. Of carnales and coyotes: Chicana/o literature of California Anne Goldman 20. Interracial relations: face and place in post-1980 Asian American literature King-Kok Cheung 21. California and the queer utopian imagination: 1981-2014 Cael Keegan 22. Modern California nature writing Michael Kowalewski 23. Making Californias small towns and cities visible in the twenty-first century Nancy Cook 24. Science fiction and mysterious worlds Lynn Mie Itagaki.