Research Catalog

Title

West of the border : the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers / Noreen Groover Lape.

Author

Lape, Noreen Groover, 1966-

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

x, 224 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a white southwestern writer - each of these intercultural writers faces a rite of passage into a new social order. Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment."
• "In West of the Border Noreen Groover Lape raises issues inherent in American pluralism today by broaching timely concerns about American frontier politics, conceptualizing frontiers as intercultural contact zones, and expanding the boundaries of frontier literary studies by giving voice to minority writers."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1850-1940
• American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism
• American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts > West (U.S.)
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Women and literature > West (U.S.)
• Multiculturalism in literature
• Ethnicity in literature
• Women in literature > History
• Women in literature
• American literature
• American literature > Minority authors
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts
• Ethnicity in literature
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Intellectual life
• Literature
• Multiculturalism in literature
• Women and literature
• Minderheitenliteratur
• West (U.S.) > Intellectual life
• West (U.S.) > In literature
• West United States
• Frontier
• USA

Genre/Form

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.

Contents

Introduction : rites of passage, contact zones, and the American frontiers -- Double consciousness in the borderlands : the frontier autobiographies of James P. Beckwourth and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- The second coming of trickster : culture contact and trickster border narratives -- Bartered brides and compulsory bachelors on the Chinese American frontier : the short stories of Sui Sin Far -- Arranged betrothals and mixed marriages : the Japanese American romances of Onoto Watanna -- Conservation, anthropology, and the closed frontier : the southwestern writings of Mary Austin.

ISBN

• 0821413457
• 9780821413456
• 0821413465
• 9780821413463

LCCN

00028569

OCLC

• ocm43708490
• 43708490
• SCSB-1137639

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library