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West of the border : the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers /

"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a white southweste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lape, Noreen Groover, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rites of passage, contact zones, and the American frontiers
  • Double consciousness in the borderlands : the frontier autobiographies of James P. Beckwourth and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
  • The second coming of trickster : culture contact and trickster border narratives
  • Bartered brides and compulsory bachelors on the Chinese American frontier : the short stories of Sui Sin Far
  • Arranged betrothals and mixed marriages : the Japanese American romances of Onoto Watanna
  • Conservation, anthropology, and the closed frontier : the southwestern writings of Mary Austin.