On reading the Grapes of Wrath
By: Susan Shillinglaw
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780143125501
Subjects: Influence
Description: "Today's foremost Steinbeck scholar writes an extended meditation on the influence of The Grapes of Wrath, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its first publication In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's National Book Award-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. The story of their struggle remains eerily relevant in today's America and stands as a portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, "in the souls of the people.""--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206).
Table of contents: title: New Start Big Writing; title: Five Layers; title: "Stay with the detail."; title: Scientist and Writer; title: A Journal, the Turtle, and lnterchapters; title: Participation; title: This "Middlebrow" Book; title: Isolatoes and the Greater Whole; title: Wrath; title: Woman to Woman; title: Pictures; title: "Loose Aggregations"; title: The Salinas Lettuce Strike, 1936; title: History on the Outside; title: "They's a lot a fellas wanta know what reds is."; title: History on the Inside; title: Migrants; title: "Care like hell."; title: Beyond the Joad Niche; title: Systemic Sins; title: Ma to Tom: "Ever'thing you do is more'n you."; title: Ricketts on Grapes; title: The Book; title: Reactions; title: Did the Grapes o/Wrath Help the Migrants?; title: The Film .; title: "None of it is important or all of it is."