Playing house in the American West : western women's life narratives, 1839-1987 /

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Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - this book argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor the author uses in her study is &quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Halverson, Cathryn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Temas:
Women and literature > West (U.S.)
Autobiography > Women authors > History and criticism.
Domestic space in literature.
Women authors, American > West (U.S.)
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques > Histoire et critique.
Espace domestique dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Literature.
Women and literature.
Women authors, American.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Playing house on the frontier: Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe
  • "Your ex-washlady": Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the woman homesteader of Wyoming
  • "Straight-made in nothing": Mary MacLane and domestic ritual
  • Girls of the limberlost: Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley
  • "Wind and sun are good housekeepers": the domestic narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa
  • Camps, caves, and attics: playing house in Willa Cather's western novels
  • My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: home writing as travel writing
  • Eating in, eating out, and eating al Otro Lado: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me
  • Searching for home: Jean Stafford's west
  • The once and future home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here
  • "I am going to 'play like' you have come."

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