Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush.

These erasures are not a shortcoming of the poet's imagination but rather a function of how the poet deploys the conventions of the labor poem to particular colonial ends, representing the environment as a foreign threat, elevating the activities of the Anglo laborer, and justifying the forms of set...

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Publicado en:Western American Literature Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 1 - 33
Autor principal: Gelmi, Caroline
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Publicado: Western Literature Association Fall2022
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