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本文考虑了加州小说家是如何把加州描绘成一个失败的地方的——在那里，如果你站在历史错误的一边，土地就会从你脚下偷走。本文的第一部分考虑了几本描述19世纪国家权力斗争的早期小说:《华金·穆列塔的生活与冒险》、《雷蒙娜》、《霸占者与堂》和《章鱼》。这些小说揭示了这个州是由白人至上、垄断、可疑的立法和歧视性的联邦政策所塑造的。文章的第二部分阐述了加州最近关于剥夺财产的叙述，包括《如果他叫，让他走》、《美国之子》、《在耶稣的脚下》、《当皇帝是神的时候》和《那里那里》。本研究亦结合文化地理学的理论，借鉴Hunt和Hsuan L. Hsu的著作，将空间与权力联系起来，检视区域转型的过程与意义。
ABSTRACT This essay considers how California novelists have depicted the state as a locale of defeat – where, if you are on the wrong side of history, the land can be stolen out from under you. The first part of this article considers several early novels that address the 19th-Century power struggles of the state: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,, Ramona, The Squatter and the Don, and The Octopus. These novels reveal that the state was shaped by white supremacy, monopolies, suspect legislation, and discriminatory federal policies. The second part of the essay illuminates more recent narratives of dispossession in California, including If He Hollers Let Him Go, American Son, Under the Feet of Jesus, When the Emperor Was Divine, and There There. This study also incorporates theories of cultural geography, drawing from the writings of Alex Hunt and Hsuan L. Hsu, who make connections between space and power, and examine the processes and significance of regional transformation.
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