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{"title":"My Life in Pacific Grove, A Memoir","authors":"Courtney Westergren","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"9 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck","authors":"C. Johnson","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139187733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Update from the Steinbeck Archives","authors":"Peter Van Coutren","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.2.0298","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a look at activities, ongoing projects, website additions, recent acquisitions, and background information on the Steinbeck archives at San José State University.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"59 11-12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disappearing Out of Existence: An Examination of Identity in East of Eden","authors":"Jennifer Ren","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.1.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.1.0060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Cathy Ames is initially identified as a monster. However, both Cathy and Steinbeck reveal the disarming normalness of her psyche. Scholars tend to simply accept the label of “monster” without fully examining the formation of Cathy’s identity. To truly understand Cathy, it is important to examine her connection to Alice—both the Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Alice Trask. My paper will examine the formation of Cathy’s identity through the millennial lens of perspective. In the twenty-first century, people are increasingly trying to see things from other people’s perspective. However, more than half a century ago, Steinbeck was already questioning how tolerant or judgmental people should be in labeling another person’s identity. He creates Cathy to be a horrifying monster who unexpectedly has the qualities of a fictional child, Alice in Wonderland, and a meek housewife, Alice Trask. Furthermore, both Alices contain the key to Cathy’s deepest desire—the anti-monstrous desire to disappear out of existence. By connecting Cathy’s story to the two Alices, Steinbeck shows how elusive yet familiar another individual’s identity can be.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"60 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ruin of “Best-Laid Plans”: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Yates’s Revolutionary Road","authors":"Kimberly Parrott","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.1.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.20.1.0101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the centuries since the United States became a nation, much has been written about the American Dream, which is often defined by a longing for home, independence, and security. Some works of John Steinbeck, however, encapsulate the antithesis of this national Dream in portraying the denial or collapse of hoped-for success and happiness. His Of Mice and Men (1937), to illustrate, speaks to failed American aspirations that range from the longing for home, independence, and equal rights, to the need for humane treatment of all. Twenty-four years later, Richard Yates also wrote an acclaimed work depicting the anti–American Dream, his novel Revolutionary Road (1961). These two novels share commonalities that may be analyzed in terms of characterization, themes, and their representation of the sources of the Dream’s oppressors. In Steinbeck’s last work, the nonfiction America and Americans (1966), he describes an America that eerily matches the United States that Yates portrays in his fictional Revolutionary Road. In essence, these two significant novels, Of Mice and Men and Revolutionary Road, written twenty-four years apart and each representative of its times, serve as parallels for capturing the antithesis of the American Dream—an antithesis still prevalent in literature and life.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"101 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139371675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Songs of a People: Steinbeck and Transatlantic Song","authors":"F. Ferguson, Grainne Milner-McLoone","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0156","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article we will examine the significance of place and music within Steinbeck’s work. In particular, we will explore how Steinbeck’s conception of place in his ancestral County Derry has figured as part of a wider transatlantic discourse in which writers have looked to this area in the north of Ireland to explore their sense of their personal and familial identity. As part of this process, the idealization of space and memory through the literature, history, and heritage “of the people” has been invoked. In contrast, we will compare Steinbeck’s approach with that of two writers also connected to the area, the New Hampshire poet Robert Dinsmoor and the song collector Sam Henry. The former, of Scotch-Irish descent, had a negative view of his family’s stay in Ireland; the latter, who lived most of his life in Ireland, was a champion of the area and sought to promote an authentic as possible record of local song and culture. We will maintain that Steinbeck’s sense of his people differs sharply with these two authors and offers an alternative version of the place and people as the returning American whose Ireland is more enigmatic and literary than either Dinsmoor’s or Henry’s Ireland.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"156 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43767346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City by Carol Lynn McKibben (review)","authors":"Kevin Hearle","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0230","url":null,"abstract":"Historians familiar with Salinas are likely to think of it as either the setting for several novels by John Steinbeck or as a site where the United Farm Workers merged civil and labor rights in agricultural fields during the 1970s. As I grew up in the Bay Area during the 1980s, Salinas came up in conversations when talking about crime and gang activity. In her recent book on the history of Salinas, Carol Lynn McKibben engages each of these subjects while asking us to rethink what we know of this central California city.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"230 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48107823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Steinbeck Ireland Symposium Student Panel","authors":"W. Murphy","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0210","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Steinbeck Ireland Symposium, held on November 27, 2021, at Drenagh Estate in County Derry, included an interdisciplinary panel made up of students from Ulster University’s Environmental Science and American Literature courses. These student voices bring fresh insights on Steinbeck’s Log from the Sea of Cortez.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"210 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41472298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“None of it is important or all of it is”: Steinbeck, Ricketts, Ecology, and Identity","authors":"C. McGonigle","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interdisciplinarity emerges as a strong theme from the Log from the Sea of Cortez, based on the shared experience of Steinbeck and Ricketts and their influence on one another’s thinking and writing. This article reflects inquiry based on personal experiences as a contemporary marine scientist. It discusses the role and importance of scientific outreach, in particular the role of popularizers in connecting with audiences from diverse backgrounds and education levels. These concepts are explored in relation to an interdisciplinary reading group held as part of the Steinbeck Festival in Northern Ireland that was designed to build common language, to create discourse between the arts and science, and to understand the marine environment and our place within it. It explores issues of identity, systems of classification, and ways of understanding complex systems such as the environment and ecology as related to the personal and the sense of self. All these themes are explored in the Log to varying degrees and work in a complementary way. Technology and development are important and inextricably linked, from communications to methods of interrogation for the environment. As the technology improves, our ability to understand the environment changes, but “common” resources are then subject to market demands. We contrast the speed and efficacy of contemporary marine science with the contemplative Darwinian pace of the Western Flyer in the Log, and suggest that there is value in both approaches. The industrial scale and pace of modern scientific expeditions can present obstacles to the intimacy of experience within the environment, and there is much value to the bucket and spade approaches to build this rapport and affinity with the subject. This has an inherent value of its own and is worth conserving. The article concludes that for interdisciplinarity to succeed, it is essential to recognize that it is relationships between individuals that really gets things done--developing common language, a mutual appreciation, a spirit of cooperation, and the value of a shared endeavor.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"191 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41740060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Steinbeck, Race, and Route 66 in The Grapes of Wrath","authors":"G. Jenkins","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.19.2.0172","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite its advocacy for tenant farmers, laborers, Okies, and other poor migrants across the United States, John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath seemingly ignores the Black Americans among them and effectively erases the history of African Americans even as it elevates Route 66 and the overlooked and forgotten trials and tribulations of White, rural, faming families who lived along it. This article surveys the state of scholarship on Steinbeck’s relation to racism and racial issues, and sets the novel’s depiction of African Americans in historical and well as critical contexts. In its bulk, the article examines one crucial historical fact that Steinbeck omits from his epic tale of the Joad family emigrating from Oklahoma: the many all-Black towns situated along Route 66 and its “tributary side roads” featured in the novel. Ultimately, readers of Steinbeck learn about the contexts that Steinbeck ignores but that nonetheless provide an opportunity to highlight with the fame he’s brought to the so-called “Mother Road.”","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"172 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43962382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}