The Politics of Oz

Works Cited

Special thanks to Jane Albright of the International Wizard of Oz Club for wonderful, generous assistance in attaining the sources from The Baum Bugle. 🙏 I am hugely appreciative. If you read this, Jane, I apologize the tone is so negative. My analysis is not charitable, but I don’t hate Oz. It’s thought-provoking and creative.

(Not in MLA or Chicago format, but good enough for this)

L. Frank Baum. Father Goose: His Book. 1899. https://web.archive.org/web/20061010145318/http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh/fghb.htm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 1900. https://www.loc.gov/item/03032405/
The Marvelous Land of Oz. 1904. https://archive.org/details/marvelouslandofo00baum
The Woggle-Bug Book. 1905. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21914/pg21914-images.html
Ozma of Oz. 1907. https://archive.org/details/ozmaofozrecordof00baum/mode/2up
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. 1908. https://archive.org/details/dorothywizardino00baum2/mode/2up
The Road to Oz. 1909. https://archive.org/details/roadtooz00baum/mode/2up
The Emerald City of Oz. 1910. https://archive.org/details/emeraldcityofoz00baum
The Patchwork Girl of Oz. 1913. https://archive.org/details/patchworkgirlofo00baum/mode/2up
Tik-Tok of Oz. 1914. https://archive.org/details/tiktokofoz00baum/page/n15/mode/2up
The Scarecrow of Oz. 1915. https://archive.org/details/scarecrowofozbyl00baum/mode/2up
Rinkitink in Oz. 1916. https://archive.org/details/rinkitinkinoz00baum/mode/2up
The Magic of Oz. 1919. https://archive.org/details/magicofozfaithfu00baum

J. L. Bell. “Dorothy the Conqueror.” The Baum Bugle 49, No. 1 (2005): 13–17.

Robin Bernstein. “The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann.” In Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, 146–193. Published by New York University Press, 2011.

Library of Congress. “The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale.” https://loc.gov/exhibits/oz/

Dee Michel. “Not in Kansas Anymore: The Appeal of Oz for Gay Males.” The Baum Bugle 45, No. 1 (2002): 31–38.

Mary Pierpoint. “Was Frank Baum a racist or just the creator of Oz?” ICT. IndiJ Public Media, 12 September 2018. https://ictnews.org/archive/was-frank-baum-a-racist-or-just-the-creator-of-oz
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230207022038/https://ictnews.org/archive/was-frank-baum-a-racist-or-just-the-creator-of-oz

In Praise of Shadows. “Return to Oz is an Absolute Nightmare.” 22 January 2021. https://youtu.be/dnXjqhzbY1w

Suzanne Rahn. “Beneath the Surface of Ozma of Oz.” The Baum Bugle 45, No. 1 (2002): 25–30.

Richard Tuerk. Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books. Published by McFarland & Company (2007).

Sally Roesch Wagner. “The Wonderful Mother of Oz.” The Baum Bugle 47, No. 3 (2003): 7–13.

Jack Zipes. “Inverting and Subverting the World With Hope: The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, and L. Frank Baum.” In Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, second edition. Published by Routledge, 2006.