Cathryn Halverson

Gebundenes Buch

Playing House in the American West

Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Children's Literature in Education, American Studies, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She teaches at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780817318031
• ISBN-10: 0817318038
• Artikelnr.: 37186752