Writing the Golden State by Carribean Fragoza

Writing the Golden State by Carribean Fragoza

A collection of literary essays about California from some of the state's most established, and most exciting upcoming writers.

Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California explores California through twenty-five essays that look beyond the clichés of the "California Dream," portraying a state that is deviant and recalcitrant, proud and humble, joyful and communal. It is a California that reclaims the beauty of the unwanted, the quotidian, and the out-of-place. Constantly in search of "the spirit of a place" Writing the Golden State pries into the themes of familial genealogy, migration, land and housing, and national belonging and identity.?Collectively, the essays demonstrate how individuals and towns have weathered some of the social, political, and economic changes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Fragoza, Carribean: - Carribean Fragoza is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, she completed the creative writing MFA program at CalArts, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. The founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective, and the co-editor of Boom California, her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications.

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ISBN 13	9781626401211
ISBN 10	1626401217
Title	Writing the Golden State
Author	Carribean Fragoza
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Angel City Press,U.S.
Year published	2024-09-20
Number of pages	192
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