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Gwartney, Debra

 
9780826360717: I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0826360718 ISBN 13 : 9780826360717
Editeur : UNM Press, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West

Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to settle the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.

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À propos de l'auteur

Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love and the coeditor of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. She teaches in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program and lives in Western Oregon.

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Éditeur
UNM Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826360718
ISBN 13 
9780826360717
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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