Format:
Book
Title:
The literature of California. Volume 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 / edited by Jack Hicks ... [et al.].
Call Number:
810.8 Literatu v.1
Publisher, Date:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000-
Description:
v. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
American literature -- California.
California -- Literary collections.
Other Author:
Hicks, Jack, 1942-
Other Title:
Native American beginnings to 1945
Contents:
Indian beginnings. The creation (Maidu) -- The creation: Turtle Island (Maidu) -- Origin of the mountains (Yokuts) -- The three worlds (Chumash) -- The making of man (Chumash) -- Initiation song (Yuki) -- Cottontail and the sun (Owens Valley Paiute) -- Puberty dance song (Wintu) -- Three love songs (Wintu) -- About-the-house girl (Karok) -- The girl who married rattlesnake (Pomo) -- The man and the owls (Yokuts) -- Coyote cooks his daughter (Cupeño) -- An ordered world (Miwok) -- Prayer for good fortune (Yokuts) -- Feast oration (Wintu) -- To the edge of the earth (Wintu) -- Rattlesnake ceremony song (Yokuts) -- Dream time (Ohlone) -- Four dream cult songs (Wintu) -- Dancing on the brink of the world (Costanoan) -- Old gambler's song (Konkow) -- Grandfather's prayer (Wintu) -- Death song (Cupeño) -- Burial oration (Wintu) -- The soul's journey to Similaqsa (Chumash) -- The land of the dead (Serrano) -- Summons to a mourning ceremony (Miwok).
One hundred years of exploration and conquest, 1769-1870. "The Queen of California" from Las Sergas de Espandián (c. 1510) / Garcí Rodriguez Ordóñez de Montalvo -- "The naming of Santa Ana and Los Angeles" from Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary explorer of the Pacific Coast (1769) / Fray Juan Crespi -- "Report to the viceroy" from A historical, political, and natural description of California (1773) / Pedro Fages -- "A visit to Carmel" from Voyage autour du monde (1786) / Jean Francois de Galoup de la Pérouse -- A letter to the Minister of Commerce (1806) / Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov -- "The trapper and the Padre" from The southwest expeditions of Jedediah S. Smith: His personal account of the journey to California (1826) / Jedediah Strong Smith -- "Our games and dances" from Conversion of the San Luiseños of Alta California (c. 1835) / Pablo Tac -- "Haole and Kanaka" from Two years before the mast (1840) / Richard Henry Dana -- "Some points in geography" from Report of the exploring mission to Oregon and North California (1845) / John Charles Fŕemont -- from The emigrants' guide to Oregon and California (1845) / Lansford Hastings -- "The bear flag party" from Recuerdos históricos y personales tocante a la Alta California (1846) / Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo -- "The California battalion" from Waht I saw in California (1846) / Edwin Bryant -- from A frontier lady (1849) / Sarah Eleanor Royce -- "San Francisco by day and night" from El Dorado, or Adventures in the path of empire (1849) / Bayard Taylor -- "A trip into the mines" from The Shirley letters (1852) / Louse Clappe [Dame Shirley] -- from California in-doors and out (1856) / Eliza W.B. Farnham -- from The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit (1854) / John Rollin Ridge [Yellow Bird] -- "Lucy's story" from Out of the past: A true Indian story (c.1862) / T'Tcetsa [Lucy Young] -- "Los Angeles and environs" from Up and down California, 1860-64 (1864) / William Henry Brewer -- "Mount Shasta" from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) / Clarence King.
The rise of a California literature, 1865-1914. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County (1867) ; from Roughing it (1872) / Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain] -- The outcasts of Poker Flats (1869) / Bret Harte -- Old Monterey (c. 1870) / Charles Warren Stoddard -- Copa de oro (The California poppy) ; The mariposa lily ; Millennium ; Retrospect (in Los Angeles (c. 1880) / Ina Coolbrith -- "Californian" from Songs of the Sierra (1872) / Joaquin Miller -- Moson's master (1893) / Ambrose Bierce -- from The squatter and the Don (1885) / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- from Life among the Piutes (1883) / Thecmetony [Sarah Winnemucca] -- from The Silverado squatters / Robert Louis Stevenson -- from Ramona (1884) / Helen Hunt Jackson -- from California: A study of American character (1886) / Josiah Royce -- How the pump stopped at the morning watch (c. 1890) / Mary Hallock Foote -- The man with the hoe (1899) ; The sower (1901) / Edwin Markham -- from The mountains fo California (1894) / John Muir -- Beyond the breakers ; The black vulture (c. 1900) / George Sterling -- from The Californians (1898) / Gertrude Atherton -- In the land of the free (1912) / Edith Maud Eaton [Sui Sin Far] -- Some wtories of my western life ; Ah, who says so? ; My poetry (1897) / Yone Noguchi -- Walking to Los Angeles" from As I remember (unpublished ms., c. 1910) / Charles Fletcher Lummis -- from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) / L. Frank Baum -- Four poems of Angel Island and Chinatown (c. 1910-1940) / Anonymous Chinese Immigrants -- from Martin Eden (1908) / Jack London -- from The octopus (1901) / Frank Norris -- from The land fo little rain (1903) / Mary Austin.
Dreams and awakenings, 1915-1945. Continent's end ; To the stone cutters ; Tor House ; Hurt hawks ; Rock and hawk ; The purse-seine ; Carmel Point (c. 1924-1934) / Robinson Jeffers -- from Indians in overalls (1950) / Jaime de Angulo -- from Oil! (1927) / Upton Sinclair -- from The Maltese falcon (1930) / Dashiell Hammett -- from The blacker the berry (1929) / Wallace Thurman -- See Los Angeles first ; The slow Pacific swell ; John Sutter ; Moonlight alert ; The California oaks (c. 1929-1939) / Yvor Winters -- from The postman always rings twice (1934) / James M. Cain -- The daring young man on the flying trapeze (1934) ; from Quarter, half, three-quarter and whole notes (1936) / William Saroyan -- from They shoot horses, don't they? (1935) / Horace McCoy -- from Ordeal by hunger (1936) / George R. Stewart -- from The grapes of wrath (1939) / John Steinbeck -- from Factories in the field (1939) / Carey McWilliams -- Noon on Alameda Street ; 12 o'clock freight ; Lava has meaning ; The buck ; Hawk is a woman (c. 1929-1939) / Hildegarde Flanner -- Tehachapi south ; The directors ; Now that April's here ; City ; Subdivision (c. 1935-1939) / Josephine Miles -- from Ask the dust (1939) / John Fante -- from The big sleep (1939) / Raymond Chandler -- from The day of the locust (1939) / Nathanael West -- from The love of the last tycoon (1941) / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The first oyster (1943) / M.F.K. Fisher -- from The vineyard (1942) / Idwal Jones -- The woman who makes swell doughnuts ; The eggs of the world ; He who has the laughing face (1949) / Toshio Mori -- from Fifth Chinese daughter (1950) / Jade Snow Wong -- from America is in the heart (1946) / Carlos Bulosan -- from If he hollers let him go (1945) / Chester Himes.
ISBN:
0520215249 (alk. paper : v. 1)
0520222121 (pbk. : alk. paper : v. 1)