| Reading Portland: The City in Prose Contributor(s): Trombold, John (Editor), Donahue, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0295986778 ISBN-13: 9780295986777 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Ranging from stories told long before Euroamericans arrived in the Pacific Northwest to those published in the twenty-first century, Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In almost one hundred selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. Authors include Harvey Scott, Abigail Duniway, Stewart Holbrook, Beverly Cleary, Ursula LeGuin, Elizabeth Woody, and many more. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) |
| Dewey: 810.803 |
| LCCN: 2006033090 |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.08" W x 9" (1.74 lbs) 608 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Portland-Vancouver, Or-Wa - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. In his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature. Included here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more. |