Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing In North American West

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 
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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