Research Catalog

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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Description

x, 418 p. : port.; 23 cm.

Summary

When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the 'cheerful helpmate' and the grim deprivation of the 'reluctant immigrant'. This title shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era.

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
• Pionnières > Provinces des Prairies > Biographies
• Pionnières > Provinces des Prairies > Conditions sociales
• Pionnières dans la littérature
• Agriculture dans la littérature
• Vie des pionniers > Provinces des Prairies

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781552380963
• 1552380963

OCLC

• 496964274
• SCSB-10780211

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library