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I am a stranger here myself
- Title
- I am a stranger here myself / Debra Gwartney.
- Author
- Gwartney, Debra
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- ix, 282 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- River teeth literary nonfiction prize
- Uniform Title
- River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
- Subjects
- Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847
- United States, West
- Whitman Massacre, 1847
- Salmon (Idaho) > Biography
- Women > Idaho > Biography
- Families
- Idaho > Salmon
- Cayuse Indians > Missions
- Gwartney, Debra > Family
- Biography
- Women > Social conditions
- 1847
- Whitman Massacre (1847)
- Women > West (U.S.) > Social conditions
- Manners and customs
- Idaho > Social life and customs
- Biographies
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282).
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2882
- ISBN
- 9780826360717
- 0826360718
- LCCN
- 2018048380
- OCLC
- 1057243725
- Author
- Gwartney, Debra, author.
- Title
- I am a stranger here myself / Debra Gwartney.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- River teeth literary nonfiction prizeRiver teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282).
- Chronological Term
- 1847
- Other Form:
- Online version: Gwartney, Debra, author. I am a stranger here myself First edition. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019 9780826360724 (DLC) 2018049743
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2882