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Looking back : Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity

Title
Looking back : Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity / S. Leigh Matthews.
Author
Matthews, S. Leigh (Sandra Leigh), 1967-
Publication
Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2010.

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 11-457Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
x, 418 p. : port.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The West series, 1922-6519 ; 1
Uniform Title
West series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 1.
Subject
  • Women pioneers > Prairie Provinces > Biography
  • Women pioneers > Prairie Provinces > Social conditions
  • Women pioneers in literature
  • Agriculture in literature
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Prairie Provinces
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
Contents
Introduction : untilled fields -- Seemingly trivial : re-visioning historical narratives of western settlement -- Dauntless optimism/perverse endurance : re-visioning literary narratives of settler women -- The precarious perch of the decent woman : re-visioning the space(s) of western settlement -- The landscape behind it : re-visioning some other subjects of agriculture -- Conclusions : the ragged garment of memory.
Call Number
JFE 11-457
ISBN
  • 9781552380963
  • 1552380963
OCLC
496964274
Author
Matthews, S. Leigh (Sandra Leigh), 1967-
Title
Looking back : Canadian women's prairie memoirs and intersections of culture, history, and identity / S. Leigh Matthews.
Imprint
Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2010.
Series
The West series, 1922-6519 ; 1
West series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 1.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-457
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