Faithful transgressions in the American West
Subtitle: six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts
By: Laura L. Bush.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: American prose literature -- Mormon authors -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism; Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.); Women pioneers -- Biography -- History and criticism; Mormon women -- Biography -- History and criticism; Women -- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life; Women and literature -- West (U.S.); Autobiography -- Mormon authors; Autobiography -- Women authors; West (U.S.) -- Biography -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier; title: Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother; title: Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier; title: Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story; title: A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place; title: Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.