Reclaiming John Steinbeck

• Verfasst von: Jones, Gavin Roger [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Reclaiming John Steinbeck
• Titelzusatz: writing for the future of humanity
• Verf.angabe: Gavin Jones, Stanford University
• Ausgabe: First published
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xi, 252 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84412-3
• Schlagwörter: (p)Steinbeck, John / (s)Rezeption
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968-: Reclaiming John Steinbeck. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 |(DLC)2021024881
• RVK-Notation: HU 8605
• K10plus-PPN: 1760087890

Abstract

"John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental crisis, and a growing divide between the powerful and the marginalized. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Steinbeck's work crossed a variety of borders - between the United States and the Global South, between human and non-human lifeforms, between science and the arts, and between literature and film - to explore the transformations in consciousness necessary for our survival on a precarious planet. Always seeking new forms to express his ecological and social vision of human interconnectedness and vulnerability, Steinbeck is a writer of urgent concern for the twentieth-first century, even as he was haunted by the legacies of racism and injustice in the American West"--