The lonely other
Subtitle: a woman watching America
By: Diana Hume George.
Series: Creative nonfiction; Creative nonfiction (Urbana, Ill.)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Women -- United States.; United States -- Description and travel.
Description: The Lonely Other chronicles the life of a woman constantly facing new amazements. In "Wound Chevy at Wounded Knee" (Best of the Best American Essays [1994]) Diana Hume Georgia recounts how she lived a trapped and futile life as a white teenage bride on an Indian reservation.

As an adult she confronts drunken hunters outside her isolated cabin; she faces her fear of heights by climbing in the White Mountains; she unflinchingly delves into her long-standing engagement with Anne Sexton's poetry, and into her own father's suicide. Always she wonders: Can women learn to travel alone, on roads and in their daily lives, without fear.
Table of contents: title: Love lost on the road; title: Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee; title: The bear within at Yellowstone; title: Losing time at Lamar; title: Sex and death at Devil Canyon; title: Disrupting the gaze, or how I turned chicken; title: Women in the woods; title: Words you have heard, in a language you might know; title: A woman rallying for the road; title: The road to St. Mary's; title: The beach as nursery; title: Coming to my father's house : Anne Sexton's island god; title: Preface : wearing a human face; title: The lonely other; title: Sacred space, igneous privacies; title: Mississippi harvesters; title: Cactus, poetry, dung beetles, and wild pigs; title: Alamogordo and White Sands; title: The hermit of omigod hotsprings; title: Brain-dead and big-chilled in Southern California; title: The history of the world according to Andrew Joseph Picard; title: Froot loops in Yosemite; title: Thinking toward Georgia; title: Dreaming the breasts; title: Wounded knee at Bondcliff; title: Attitude matters : a woman alone with light; title: Blowing in the wind; title: Easter morning meditation 1994; title: Through Purgatory to the silence of the lambs; title: Seeing mindfulness : a walking meditation; title: Postscript.