Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496823087 ISBN 13 : 9781496823083

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2019

Synopsis

Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho Williams

Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues.

The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume’s contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anne K. Phillips is professor of English at Kansas State University. She is coeditor of Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott and Critical Insights: Little Women. Her work has appeared in Frontiers in American Children's Literature, the James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496823087
• ISBN 13: 9781496823083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Green-Barteet Miranda A., Phillips Anne K.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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