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In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults. And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prosebetween San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.

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San Francisco in Fiction
Essays in a Regional Literature
Edited By
David Fine &
Paul Skenazy
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
San Francisco in fiction : essays in a regional literature / edited
by David Fine and Paul Skenazy.1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.).
ISBN: 0-8263-1621-2
1. San Francisco (Calif.) in literature. 2. American fiction
CaliforniaSan FranciscoHistory and criticism. 3. American
fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. English
fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Fine, David
M., 1934 . II.Skenazy, Paul.
PS374.S15S36 1995
813'.5093279461dc20
95-4389 CIP
1995 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
First edition
designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud
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Contents
Introduction: San Francisco
3
1
Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and the Literary Construction of San Francisco
Gary Scharnhorst
21
2
Beyond San Francisco: Frank Norris's Invention of Northern California
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
35
3
Jack London's Sonoma Valley: Finding the Way Home
David Fine
56
4
Gertrude Atherton and Her San Francisco: A Wayward Writer and a Wayward City in a Wayward Paradise
Charlotte S. McClure
73
5
The "Heart's Field": Dashiell Hammett's Anonymous Territory
Paul Skenazy
96
6
William Saroyan and San Francisco: Emergence of a Genius (Self-proclaimed)
Gerald Haslam
111
7
Jack Kerouac and the Beats in San Francisco
Michael Kowalewski
126
8
Double Wonder: the Novelistic Achievement of James D. Houston
Alan Cheuse
144
9
Land Lessons in an "Unhistoried" West: Wallace Stegner's California
Nancy Owen Nelson
160
10
Clear-Cutting the Western Myth: Beyond Joan Didion
Elyse Blankley
177
11
Borders and Bridges, Doors and Drugstores: Toward a Geography of Time
Paul Skenazy
198
12
The Chinatown Aesthetic and the Architecture of Racial Identity
Nina Y. Morgan
217
Contributors
241

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There is no great city to the north of us, to the south none nearer than Mexico, to the west is the waste of the Pacific, to the east the waste of the deserts. Here we are set down as a pin point in a vast circle of solitude.
Frank Norris on San Francisco, 1897
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Introduction
1. The Place
In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults. Then there were the Costanoan Indians. And then the missionsMission San Carlos Borromeo on the Carmel River and Mission Dolores on the peninsula that was to become San Francisco. The Spanish missionaries brought not only their industry and faith, their diseases, their racism, and their class assumptions, but their language, and so there was the naming: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey. By the early 1800s, there were large Spanish land grant holdings along the San Francisco and Monterey bays that had overrun and undermined the traditional Indian communities and cultures.
In 1822, just as Spain was formally relinquishing its claims to the New World, an English seaman named William Richardson jumped ship and hired himself out as a pilot and small-boat captain in what is now the San Francisco Bay. Richardson served as a go-between for Anglo ships and Mexican ranchersa man who would willingly accept a bribe in lieu of Mexican duties, who got things done for people who could pay for his services. In 1835 the successful deserter and entrepreneur opened a store on a waterfront cove between Telegraph and Rincon hills. He called it Yerba Buena after the mintlike leaves that grew wild there. A year later Jacob Lees, an Ohio-born merchant, built a house in Yerba Buena, thereby creating the first pueblo in secularized San Franciscoand its downtown waterfront district.
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With a population of perhaps three hundred in 1845, Yerba Buena was still a tiny enclave among vast Spanish and Mexican land grantsa small port, a northern stop along a coastline dominated by the community of Monterey, with its flourishing port. Then came the Gold Rush of 184849, and San Francisco's strategic setting at the meeting of ocean and inland waterways, with access to the Sierra gold country, made it the ideal port city for the mines. By 1852, the city of San Francisco, now a part of the newly annexed state of California, had a population of forty thousand. Richard Henry Dana, who visited the bay in 1835 and later described it in
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