Homer from Salinas
Subtitle: John Steinbeck's enduring voice for California
By: edited by William Anthony Nericcio
Contributors: San Diego State University. College of Arts and Letters; Enduring Voice for California: a Celebration of John Steinbeck (2007 : San Diego State University)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Diego State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781879691896
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; In literature
Other titles: John Steinbeck's enduring voice for California
Notes: Contributions to a conference entitled "An Enduring Voice for California: a Celebration of John Steinbeck", held April-May, 2007, at San Diego State University; organized by the University's College of Arts and Letters.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: John Steinbeck's Trojan horse : an introduction to Homer from Salinas / by William Anthony Nericcio; title: Steinbeck's Wrath : commies, olies, and the battle for California's heartland / John Putnam; title: On the Grapes of wrath / by Jeffrey Charles; title: Steinbeck's reporting for the San Francisco news / by Charles Wollenberg; title: Come back, Tom Joad / by William Deverell; title: Of mice and men, mice and beans, and laughing tomatoes : Steinbeck and Mexican-American children's authors / Phillip Serrato; title: Steinbeck's trace / by Francisco X. Alarcón; title: Boring a reader to death / by Hernán Moreno-Hinojosa; title: Untitled / by Pam Muñoz Ryan; title: Introduction : Watching Steinbeck's ethnic eye / William A. Nericcio; title: Steinbeck and the construction of Chinese American identities / by Paul Wong; title: From caricature to character : Italians in the writing of John Steinbeck / by Fred Gardaphé; title: If Steinbeck was alive today, would he be a vigilante Minuteman, a border rights activist, a Santa Fe New Age mystic, Zapatista, arm-chair humanist and all, none, or some of the above? / by Arturo J. Aldama; title: Iconic, ironic, bubonic : apprehending John Steinbeck's white ethnics / by Michael Harper; title: Introductions, Joyce Gattas and Arthur Ollman; title: Picturing Steinbeck and more / by Louis Hock; title: The wrath of a nation : reading The grapes of wrath, 1939-2007 / by Susan Shillingslaw.