The re-invention of the American West
Subtitle: women's periodicals and gendered geography in the late nineteenth-century United States
By: Noriko Suzuki ; with a foreword by Etsuko Taketani.
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780773448476
Subjects: Women -- West (U.S.) -- Periodicals -- History -- 19th century; Women's periodicals -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Journalism -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Geographical perception -- West (U.S.); American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The privatized "West": women's diaries and letters; title: The reinvention of the West: gender-politics and economy in The farmer's wife; title: Reconstructing western discourse in the far West: Mary Hallock Foote and the representation of the West in her illustrations and descriptive sketches; title: From inside and outside of the "West": representing Indians in Zitkala-Sa's autobiographical stories in The Atlantic monthly.