Bibliographies
American Space and Identity
Tue, 11 Jun 2002
Alyson Buckman, abuckman@saclink.csus.edu
TO H-AMSTDY and H-PCAACA: Thank you again to all the list members who
helped with this task! Alyson Buckman
Suggested readings in American Space and Identity
fiction and autobiography:
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek
Erlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces
Nyala, Hannah. Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story
Straight, Susan. I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and LIcked Out All the Pots
non-fiction:
"Lost Moon" by Armstrong or "Rocket Boys"
Mires, Charlene. Independence Hall in American Memory
Tuan, Yi-Fu. SPACE AND PLACE: THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXPERIENCE (U. of Minnesota Press, 1977)
Jackson, J.B. Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson and The Necessity for Ruins
Ferrell, Jeff . Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
Forman, Murray. THE 'HOOD COMES FIRST: RACE, SPACE, AND PLACE IN RAP AND HIP HOP
Simmel, Georg. essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
Goffman, Erving. THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Monti, Daniel. THE AMERICAN CITY: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Price, Jennifer. FLIGHT MAPS: ADVENTURES WITH NATURE IN MODERN AMERICA (Basic Books, 1999). If not the entire book then perhaps chapter 4: "Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to The Nature Company."
Flores, Dan. HORIZONTAL YELLOW: NATURE AND HISTORY IN THE NEAR
SOUTHWEST (U. of New Mexico Press, 1999).
deBuys, William and Alex Harris, RIVER OF TRAPS: A VILLAGE LIFE (U. of New Mexico Press, 1990).
Davis, Mike. CITY OF QUARTZ
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Legacy of Conquest
V Kunstler, James Howard. The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline
of America's man-made landscape. (New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993)
Cyberspace:
Rheingold, Howard. "A slice of my life in my virtual community." High noon on the electronic frontier: conceptual issues in cyberspace. Ed. Peter Ludlow. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992/1996) 413-436. * features The WELL as a very Californian site for identity work
Barlow, John Perry. "Coming into the country." Communications of the ACM, 34.3 (1991): 19-21.
Barlow, John Perry. "Crime and puzzlement." Whole Earth Review Fall 1990.
Barlow, John Perry. A declaration of the independence of cyberspace. 1996.
Available: http://members.iquest.net/~dmasson/barlow/Declaration-Final.html. November 15 1998
* all featuring lots of comparisons of cyberspace to the old Frontier
* all of Barlow's stuff is easily downloaded from his web site
For critical takes on all this, you might look at:
Sardar, Siauddin. "alt.civilization.faq: cyberspace as the darker side of the west." Cyberfutures: culture and politics on the information superhighway. Eds. Ziauddin Sardar and Jerome R. Ravetz. (New York: NYU Press, 1996).
Sobchack, Vivian. "Democratic franchise and the electronic frontier." Cyberfutures: culture and politics on the information superhighway.
Miller, Laura. "Women and children first: gender and the settling of the electronic frontier." Resisting the virtual life: the culture and politics of information. Eds. James Brook and Iain A. Boal. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1995. 49-58.
Turner, Fred. "Cyberspace as the new frontier? Mapping the shifting boundaries of the network society." June 6. 1999. Red Rock Eater News Service. Available: http://www.infowar.com/survey/99/survey_060799b_j.shtml.
Agre, Philip E. Cyberspace as American culture. 2000. Available:
http://dlis.gseis.edu/pagre/sac.htm. October 10 2001.
Kali Tal, The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, http://www.kalital.com/Text/Writing/Whitenes.html.
What I've used before in the literature version of this course, which also had a multicultural component:
Gish Jen. Mona in the Promised Land
Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street
John Edgar Wideman. Sent for You Yesterday
Gloria Naylor. Linden Hills
Dorothy Allison. Bastard Out of Carolina
Toni Morrison. Paradise
William Kittredge, ed. The Portable Western Reader (PWR)
Russell Banks, Success Stories
John Brinckerhoff Jackson. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time (SPST)
Gloria Anzaldua. Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza
On Reserve:
Sharon Zukin. The Cultures of Cities
Dolores Hayden. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
Michael Ventura. "Report from El Dorado"
Meridel Le Sueur. The Dread Road
On the web:
Turner's Frontier Thesis
Selections from Ginsberg, Howl: "Howl" and "America"
Silko, "Fences Against Freedom"