{"id":1221,"date":"2023-05-21T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:38","slug":"could-these-2-l-frank-baum-stories-from-1910-be-witty-allegories-about-race-colonialism-and-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Could these 2 L. Frank Baum stories from 1910 be witty allegories about race, colonialism, and immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These two chapters involving Dorothy and her friends are from Baum&#8217;s sequel to <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> (1900), <em>The Emerald City of <\/em>Oz (1910).  Chapter 12, &#8220;How They Matched the Fuddles,&#8221; and Chapter 17, &#8220;How They Came to Bunbury.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use the link below to download a pdf of both short pieces by Baum:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1QXx4LXnYMFdfgtgTOri6wfm8TBz4I5uL?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1QXx4LXnYMFdfgtgTOri6wfm8TBz4I5uL?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both are featured in my English 52A class at Swarthmore, &#8220;U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950.&#8221;  Students are very engaged proposing different ways to interpret what&#8217;s going on, especially when I give them information on debates occurring in the early twentieth century about the new U.S. empire abroad, Jim Crow at home, and other points of contention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two chapters involving Dorothy and her friends are from Baum&#8217;s sequel to The Wizard of Oz (1900), The Emerald City of Oz (1910). Chapter 12, &#8220;How They Matched the Fuddles,&#8221; and Chapter 17, &#8220;How They Came to Bunbury.&#8221; Use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=1221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}