Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936 In contrast to the traditional frontiers and pioneers focus of western studies, Maverick Autobiographies looks at women writers who came not to but from the West. Telling three larger-than-life stories, Cathryn Halverson offers an alternative history of American women's autobiography and a new view of western women's literature. Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley, and Juanita Harrison, she argues, rewrote frontier myths to make a space for themselves as female iconoclasts from the West. Creating an ardent readership for western women's "naked" desires, they became best-selling celebrity authors. After their intense early fame, though, they virtually disappeared. Halverson examines why, and brings their texts back to light through a richly textured weaving of biography, literary analysis, and cultural history--in the process, urging us to reformulate our notions of what it means to be a "western writer." |
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... refers to members of the Whiteley family by name , nor does she use " my . " Instead , with- out exception she names them as " the mamma , ” “ the papa , " " the baby , " " the grandpa , " " the grandma , " " the aunt " ; her home is ...
... refers to a childhood diary as the source for portions of The Fairyland : “ Last winter I published my first book . . . . In it are parts of the journal of my childhood .... from it you may know how I write - and of the days in the ...
... refers directly to the South but whose life is deeply affected by her southern past . ( 297n . 1 ) 34. Certainly , Sedgwick's portrait of Harrison in The Happy Profession suggests that at least in hindsight he perceived Harrison with ...
Contents
The Devil and Desire in Butte Montana | 19 |
After The Story of Mary MacLane | 53 |
Little Girls and Their Explores | 80 |
Copyright | |
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