"This lively, diverse collection of essays on Jack London's works . . . will make an important contribution to the study of this powerful, strange, baffling, exasperating writer."--Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Florida State University
"Representing new directions in London studies, these essays reach beyond traditional versions of realism and naturalism in discussing London, moving away from standard biographical readings with contemporary and diverse theoretical approaches. . . . An important contribution to the study and appreciation of one of America's most popular, yet often misunderstood, writers."--Choice
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Jack London, a representative man Leonard Cassuto and Jean Campbell Reesman; 1. Commitment and practice: the authorship of Jack London James Williams; 2. Congested mails: Buck and Jack's 'call' Jonathan Auerbach; 3. Ishi and Jack London's primitives Charles L. Crow; 4. Gazing at royalty: Jack London's The People of the Abyss and the emergence of American imperialism Robert Peluso; 5. Power, gender and ideological discourse in The Iron Hell Francis Shor; 6. Sea change in The Sea-Wolf Sam S. Baskett; 7. Making a heterosexual man: gender, sexuality and narrative in the fiction of Jack London Scott Derrick; 8. Social Darwinism, gender and humor in Adventure Clarice Stasz; 9. The way our people came: citizenship, capitalism, and racial difference in The Valley of the Moon Christopher Hugh Gair; 10. Zone-conquerors and white-devils: the contradictions of race in the works of Jack London Andrew J. Furer; 11. Political leprosy: Jack London the Kama'aina and Koolau the Hawaiian James Slagel; 12. Historical discourses in Jack London's 'shin bones' Tanya Walsh; 13. The myth of hope in Jack London's The Red One Lawrence I. Berkove; Afterword: the representative man as writer/hero Earle Labor; Notes; Index.
