Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.17.1.0082
B. Ali, Hicks
{"title":"Reading John Steinbeck in Algeria","authors":"B. Ali, Hicks","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.17.1.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.17.1.0082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70893388","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0192
Cecilia S. Donohue
{"title":"From \"Beach Read\" to Ethnic Urban Drama: Steinbeck's Imprint on the Twenty-First-Century Novel","authors":"Cecilia S. Donohue","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0192","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Without question, the writings of John Steinbeck, one half century after his death, remain multifaceted cultural touchstones. Their presence and impact are apparent in a variety of venues: in talking points regarding contemporary migration debates, in criminal cases referencing the \"Lenny Standard,\" and in Sarah Fox's Pancake House Mystery Series, which includes such titles as Yeast of Eden, The Crêpes of Wrath, and Of Spice and Men. This paper explores how Steinbeck's distinctive and diverse literary styles have made their way into two diverse novels of the millennium. Emma Straub's The Vacationers, selected by New York magazine as one of \"The 100 Best Beach Reads,\" echoes plot and character elements from Steinbeck's 1947 novel of travel, The Wayward Bus. And the textured themes and narrative framework of Steinbeck's iconic novel of migration to California, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), are revisited and updated in Tommy Orange's 2018 novel of Native American life in the Golden State, There There.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"192 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48006562","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0145
Susan Shillinglaw
{"title":"John Steinbeck's Participatory Politics, 1936–1968","authors":"Susan Shillinglaw","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0145","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Steinbeck's body of work has often been viewed through a binary prism: in the 1930s he was concerned with group behavior and after World War II with individual conscience and consciousness. That perspective shifts, however, if one considers a trenchant comment he made in a 1955 essay: \"I believe that man is a double thing, a group animal and at the same time an individual. And it occurs to me that he cannot successfully be the second until he has fulfilled the first.\" This essay argues that the meaning and impact of group identity is the central concern of his career as a politically engaged writer.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"145 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44546634","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0174
M. Gladstein
{"title":"Business and Immigration: As Relevant Today as in Steinbeck's Times","authors":"M. Gladstein","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0174","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores immigration from the era of the Okies to the present, thus illustrating Steinbeck's ongoing significance. It also surveys Steinbeck's portrayal of businesspeople in several of his novels. Many are positive portrayals. It concludes that Steinbeck in both his presentation of immigration and business has continuing relevance for our own times.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"174 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46270002","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0183
Danica Čerče
{"title":"John Steinbeck on East European Markets","authors":"Danica Čerče","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0183","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article examines the fortunes of Steinbeck's works in East European countries as they were in the grip of communist rule and as they are since the change in the political systems. In their struggle for working-class uniformity, these countries constituted an eager market for class-conscious works. Evaluated through an ideological lens, the sole value of literary works was seen to reside in their utility to oppressive political regimes. Given Steinbeck's international reputation in the 1940s and 1950s as an ardent advocate for the downtrodden, the writer inadvertently served as a political tool against the social order of capitalism. His works that largely conformed to the communist regime's ideology were critically acclaimed and widely translated, whereas several others were unjustifiably marginalized or consigned to oblivion.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"183 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45395642","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.v
Barbara A. Heavilin, Scott C. Pugh
{"title":"Editor's Column: \"the beacon thing\": Musings on John Steinbeck, America, and Light","authors":"Barbara A. Heavilin, Scott C. Pugh","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.v","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"v - xiv"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42585121","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-12-14DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0203
Beth Linder Carr
{"title":"On Teaching The Grapes of Wrath","authors":"Beth Linder Carr","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This personal essay traces my experiences as both a reader and teacher of The Grapes of Wrath over the course of the last twenty-five years, in my capacity as a high school teacher of Advanced Placement English Literature. The opening line makes clear that the piece is not a lesson plan, nor a curriculum guide, but rather an attempt to show the degree to which the book has been important to me personally, and to show the ways I've found to make it accessible to my students. This essay includes scenes with my students, as well as research to provide background information about Steinbeck, about the censorship of the work, about the work of Dorothea Lange, about Frank Galati's adaptation of the novel for the stage, which I directed in my capacity as theater teacher.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"203 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44443650","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.1.0092
W. Ray
{"title":"Steinbeck Today","authors":"W. Ray","doi":"10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.1.0092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/steinbeckreview.16.1.0092","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The fiftieth anniversary of John Steinbeck's death in New York occasioned coverage on foreign news sites, appreciative editorials, and community commemoration in Sag Harbor. It was marred by domestic news, including renewed litigation over film rights and publication of the transcribed recording by Steinbeck's second wife of her account of their relationship. Pending publication of William Souder's life of Steinbeck, the best new writing on Steinbeck is an astute online essay by a British blogger, who implicitly answers Orwell's charge that Steinbeck lacked significance, and a compelling profile by a seasoned journalist who adds dimension and detail about the author that is likely to be cited widely in the future.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"92 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45070388","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0074
Vincent. Benlloch
{"title":"\"Those for Whom This Civilization Has No Place\": Reading Eugenics in Of Mice and Men","authors":"Vincent. Benlloch","doi":"10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite the prevalence of eugenics and determinist race-thinking during much of Steinbeck's working life, few critics have attempted to trace the echoes of that lineage in his work. Working within an interdiscplinary paradigm, I wish to argue that one of Steinbeck's oft-read and oft-analyzed novellas, Of Mice and Men, ought to be analyzed within the eugenic milieu of early twentieth-century America. Borrowing widely from intellectual history, philosophy, critical race theory, and labor studies, I present three distinct analytical channels for excavating the presence and activity of eugenic thinking in the novella. The first channel is a cosmological reading of the striking similarities between Steinbeck's non-teleological philosophy of \"visceral understanding\" and the worldview advanced by eugenicists–cum–political theorists Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard. The second is a micro-historical focus on California's role as a frontier for the institutionalization and practice of eugenics, a context that allows one to redefine some of Of Mice and Men's own narrative moments and structural relationships as marked by eugenic considerations and ethics. The third channel is a \"geosophical\" interpretation of the construction of the hobo archetype—which Lenny and George both fall under—in order to elucidate how hoboes and tramps become eugenically translated, a process of coding and identification of the unfit that signals to a coextensive precarity and revolutionary potential that \"strange\" and mobile persons embody within racially constituted spaces. In sum, much of my argument can be understood as turning around the effects and consequences of what would it mean to consider Of Mice and Men a eugenic novel in some sense.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"74 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48971163","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}
Steinbeck ReviewPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0024
D. Wrobel
{"title":"Teaching The Grapes of Wrath in the Digital Humanities Age","authors":"D. Wrobel","doi":"10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/STEINBECKREVIEW.16.1.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:My spring 2017 course \"John Steinbeck's America\" offered a chance to explore the intersection of history and literature during the period from the New Deal to the Great Society, through the work of one of its greatest authors, as well as an opportunity to use Digital Humanities (DH) tools to stimulate interest in Steinbeck and aid analysis of the \"five layers\" he said he wrote into his greatest novel. This articles explores the challenges and opportunities that accompanied the course's DH features.","PeriodicalId":40417,"journal":{"name":"Steinbeck Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"24 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42405274","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}