Cattle Country
Title | Cattle Country PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Cornell Dolan |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496226992 |
As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation's representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized food source, altering the country's culture while exacting a high cost to humans, animals, and the land. From Henry David Thoreau's descriptions of indigenous cuisines as a challenge to the rising monoculture, to Washington Irving's travel narratives that foreshadow cattle replacing American bison in the West, to María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's use of cattle to connect race and imperialism in her work, authors' preoccupations with cattle underscored their concern for resource depletion, habitat destruction, and the wasteful overproduction of a single breed of livestock. Cattle Country offers a window into the ways authors worked to negotiate the consequences of the development of this food culture and, by excavating the history of U.S. settler colonialism through the figure of cattle, sheds new ecocritical light on nineteenth-century literature.
Cattle Country
Title | Cattle Country PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Cornell Dolan |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496218647 |
Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.
Gold and Cattle Country
Title | Gold and Cattle Country PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Oliver |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Cattle trade |
ISBN |
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Title | The One-way Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Ridgwell Cullum |
Publisher | Copp, Clark Company |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Ranch life |
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Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 914 |
Release | 1915 |
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Title | Forum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | English language |
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Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Commonwealth Shipping Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 952 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Shipping |
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