Playing House in the American West: Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987 - Halverson, Cathryn
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Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterised by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. It investigates the surprising textual ends to which westerners turn the familiar terrain of the home: evaluating community; arguing for different conceptions of race and class; and perhaps most especially, resisting traditional gender roles.

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Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterised by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. It investigates the surprising textual ends to which westerners turn the familiar terrain of the home: evaluating community; arguing for different conceptions of race and class; and perhaps most especially, resisting traditional gender roles.
Autorenporträt
Cathryn Halverson is the author of Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936. She has published articles in Western American Literature, College Literature, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Arizona Quarterly, among others. She is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.