Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full ...study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others-most often as protagonists-in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.
The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London's fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the ocean, but Jack London and the Sea marks the first ...time that his life as a writer has been considered extensively in relationship to his own sailing history and interests. In this new study, Anita Duneer claims a central place for London in the maritime literary tradition, arguing that for him romance and nostalgia for the Age of Sail work with and against the portrayal of a gritty social realism associated with American naturalism in urban or rural settings. The sea provides a dynamic setting for London's navigation of romance, naturalism, and realism to interrogate key social and philosophical dilemmas of modernity: race, class, and gender. Furthermore, the maritime tradition spills over into texts that are not set at sea.Jack London and the Sea does not address all of London's sea stories, but rather identifies key maritime motifs that influenced his creative process. Duneer's critical methodology employs techniques of literary and cultural analysis, drawing on extensive archival research from a wealth of previously unpublished biographical materials and other sources. Duneer explores London's immersion in the lore and literature of the sea, revealing the extent to which his writing is informed by travel narratives, sensational sea yarns, and the history of exploration, as well as firsthand experiences as a sailor in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean.Organized thematically, chapters address topics that interested London: labor abuses on "Hell-ships" and copra plantations, predatory and survival cannibalism, strong seafaring women, and environmental issues and property rights from San Francisco oyster beds to pearl diving in the Paumotos. Through its examination of the intersections of race, class, and gender in London's writing, Jack London and the Sea plumbs the often-troubled waters of his representations of the racial Other and positions of capitalist and colonial privilege. We can see the manifestation of these socioeconomic hierarchies in London's depiction of imperialist exploitation of labor and the environment, inequities that continue to reverberate in our current age of global capitalism.
InAuthor Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in ...London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" toThe People of the Abyss.
The Jack London who emerges in the pages ofAuthor Under Sailis a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time.
Author Under Sailis a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.
Jack London (San Francisco, 1876 - California, 1916), es uno de los autores norteamericanos del siglo xix que ha gozado de mayor difusión y popularidad fuera de las fronteras de su país. Su obra, ...integrada en la corriente naturalista, muestra una preferencia por situar la acción en parajes lejanos e inexplorados, donde las condiciones de supervivencia resultan extremadamente difíciles para el hombre civilizado, y toca temas propios de la sociedad de su época, muchos de los cuales siguen vigentes hoy en día (soledad, convulsión de la sociedad civilizada ante las fuerzas destructoras e incontrolables de la naturaleza, etc.). Este libro presenta una cuidadosa selección de relatos de Jack London, que son reflejo de sus ideas sobre el comportamiento humano y las relaciones entre los individuos en circunstancias muy diversas: La leyenda de Jees Uck, Hombres que creen, Una lejana destilería, Oro abundante, La peste escarlata. Una obra con la que descubrirá la capacidad narrativa de este gran autor, que presenta además una introducción que le proporcionará la información necesaria sobre su época, contexto histórico y cultural y características fundamentales de su obra.
In Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London,
1902-1907 , Jay Williams explores Jack London's necessity to
illustrate the inner workings of his vast imagination. In this
second installment of ...a three-volume biography, Williams captures
the life of a great writer expressed though his many creative
works, such as The Call of the Wild and White
Fang , as well as his first autobiographical memoir, The
Road , some of his most significant contributions to the
socialist cause, and notable uncompleted works. During this time,
London became one of the most famous authors in America, perhaps
even the author with the highest earnings, as he prepared to become
an equally famous international writer. Author Under Sail
documents London's life in both a biographical and writerly
fashion, depicting the importance of his writing experiences as his
career followed a trajectory similar to America's from 1876 to
1916. The underground forces of London's narratives were shaped by
a changing capitalist society, media outlets, racial issues,
increases in women's rights, and advancements in national power.
Williams factors in these elements while exploring London's deeply
conflicted relationship with his own authorial inner life. In
London's work, the imagination is figured as a ghost or as a
ghostlike presence, and the author's personas, who form a dense
population among his characters, are portrayed as haunted or
troubled in some way. Along with examining the functions and works
of London's exhaustive imagination, Williams takes a critical look
at London's ability to tell his stories to wide arrays of
audiences, stitching incidents together into coherent wholes so
they became part of a raconteur's repertoire. Author Under
Sail provides a multidimensional examination of the life of a
crucial American storyteller and essayist.
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. ...A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London's career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer leveraged his written words as a force for the future.Tracing the arc of London's work from the late 1800s through the 1910s, Tichi profiles the writer's allies and adversaries in the cities, on the factory floor, inside prison walls, and in the farmlands. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and as a political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.The enhanced e-book edition ofJack Londonfeatures significant archival motion picture footage.
Before any wolf packs were established in Oregon, state officials convened a group of stakeholders to come up with a plan to manage the wolves’ impending arrival. In a chapter titled “Depredation” ...she explains that ranchers are often criticized for “their management practices once their animals are released onto summer grazing allotments on public lands,” which may suggest her alignment with those who wholly support the wolves’ return. For all its admirable depth into the topic of wolves in Oregon, Collared only slightly lacks in breadth of coverage about wolves in the West more broadly. Since wolves dispersed naturally into Oregon from surrounding states, there are a number of references both in the text and in footnotes to wolves and wolf management in neighboring states.
Wright talks about the sources of photographs in Jack London's The People of the Abyss. London offered The People of the Abyss, his eyewitness account of life in London's East End, as proof that he ...could "deliver the goods". He mentioned the research he had done and the material he had gathered. He also maintained that he had taken "two-thirds of the photographs with (his) own camera". London did not specify whether he had in mind the American edition of The People of the Abyss, published by the Macmillan Co (New York, 1903); the English edition, published by Isbister and Co Ltd (London, 1903); or the Wilshire's Magazine serialization.
Given the notoriously violent, tooth-andclaw subject matter of McCarthy's fiction, complimented by McCarthy's famous statement in "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction," his 1992 New York Times ...interview with Richard B. Woodward, that "There is no such thing as life without bloodshed," McCarthy's indebtedness to the tradition of literary naturalism would seem to be self-evident, and yet Frye's monograph is remarkably the first book-length endeavor to undertake an influence study of this kind. Child of God, when held up to the light that the influence of American literary naturalism can shed, yields McCarthy's debt to naturalist works from the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth that focused on atavistic themes and, not least, the figure of the brute. After the first three "regional" novels (always a reductive phrase!) capturing the wilderness and the fecund rural nature of East Tennessee, McCarthy's Knoxville novel deals with nature writ large within the modern urban space rather than within an environment of rocks and stones and trees. Suttree uncovers "the brutality of economic indifference as class confronts class in a battle for resources that brooks no argument or moral principle outside the game of life" (58); nevertheless, like all of McCarthy s works, Suttree invests in what Frye terms "romantic naturalism," that is, a "manifestation of a material realm of evocative mystery and cosmological implication" (59), be it in the subtle brotherhood of McAnally Flats, Suttree s tortured soul, or this same anti-hero's devotion to the living.
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