Beyond Cannery Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Cannery Row write by Carol Lynn McKibben. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Beyond Cannery Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California--and sometimes back again. McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development. These changes allowed their families to survive the challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.
Shaping the Shoreline
Shaping the Shoreline - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaping the Shoreline write by Connie Y. Chiang. This book was released on 2009-11-17. Shaping the Shoreline available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure. Connie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change. Drawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.
Cannery Row
Cannery Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cannery Row write by John Steinbeck. This book was released on 2000-09-07. Cannery Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.' Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it? Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California. 'Uninhibited, bawdy, compassionate, inquisitive, deeply intelligent' Daily Telegraph
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Man of Cannery Row write by Edward F. Ricketts. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Renaissance Man of Cannery Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of Rickett's letters discuss his studies of the Pacific littoral and his theories of "phalanx" and transcendence. Epistles to family members, often tender and humorous, add dimension and depth to Steinbeck's mythologized depictions of Ricketts." "Editor Katharine A. Rodger has enriched the correspondence with an introduction, a biographical essay, and a list of works cited. The book will be important for students of John Steinbeck and the development of 20th-century American fiction, as well as for those interested in the history of science, especially in the fields of marine biology and ecology."--Jacket.
Cannery Row
Cannery Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cannery Row write by John Steinbeck. This book was released on 1946. Cannery Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
