Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /

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The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, "I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bush, Laura L., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004.
Temas:
American prose literature > Latter Day Saint authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Women authors, American > Homes and haunts > West (U.S.)
Women pioneers > Biography > History and criticism.
Latter Day Saint women > Biography > History and criticism.
Women > West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > West (U.S.)
Autobiography > Latter Day Saint authors.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Prose américaine > Auteurs mormons > Histoire et critique.
Écrivaines américaines > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Pionnières > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Mormones > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie > Auteurs mormons.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
American prose literature
American prose literature > Women authors
Autobiography > Women authors
Biography
Women and literature
Women authors, American > Biography
Women authors, American > Homes and haunts
Women > Intellectual life
Women pioneers > Biography
West (U.S.) > Biography > History and criticism.
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier
  • Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother
  • Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier
  • Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story
  • A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place
  • Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.

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