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Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing In North American West
edited by Gioia Woods and Kathleen A. Boardman
University of Utah Press, 2005
Paper: 978-0-87480-815-5
Library of Congress Classification PS271.W47 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93278
Paper: 978-0-87480-815-5
Library of Congress Classification PS271.W47 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93278
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Introduction: What's Western about Western Autobiography? by Kathleen Boardman and Gioia Woods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Part I. On Western Subjects: Western Memoirists Speak 1. A Panel of Writers: Julene Bair, Mary Clearman Blew, Norma Elia Cantú, Patricia Hampl, and John Price . . . . . . . . . . 00 Part II. Textual Performance on a Western Stage 2. "Gifted with Reason": Progressive Fictions in Two Early Twentieth-Century Western Autobiographies, by Eric Waggoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 3. Textual Performance and the Western Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, by Danielle Tisinger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 4. Ecce Cowboy: E. C. Abbott's We Pointed Them North, by Richard Hutson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 5. African-American Autobiography and Self-Publication in the American West, by Dan Moos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 6. Vulgar Words of Language: The Sacred and Profane Hero of Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory, by Edward A. Shannon. . . . . . . . 00 Part III. Roots and Routes: Globalization, Diaspora, and Anxiety of Place 7. Bringing Mary MacLane Back Home: Western Autobiographical Writing and the Anxiety of Place, by Julia Watson. . . . . . . 00 8. Opal Whiteley and the Disappearing Region, by Cathryn Halverson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 9. Family Memoirs and the Mexican Diaspora: John Rechy, John Phillip Santos, and Pat Mora, by Bert Almon. . . . . . . . . . 00 10. Labored Realisms: Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian American and Asian (Im)migrant Women's (Auto)biography, by Wendy S. Hesford and Theresa A. Kulbaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 Part IV. Space for Writing: Memory as Place Holder 11. Sentimental Eco-Memoir: Refuge, Hole in the Sky, and the Necessary Reader, by Tara Penry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 12. The Erosion of Memory: Deep Mapping an Alaskan Landscape of Loss in Sheila Nickerson's Disappearance: A Map, by Susan Naramore Maher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 13. Prepositional Spaces: Family Photographs, History, and Storytelling in Memoirs by Contemporary Western Writers, by Melody Graulich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 14. "Settling Down" in Western Nebraska: Grounding Local History through Memoir, by Charlotte Hogg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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