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West of the border : the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers
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West of the border : the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers

Author: Noreen Groover Lape
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Noreen Groover Lape
ISBN: 0821413457 9780821413456 0821413465 9780821413463
OCLC Number: 43708490
Description: x, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : rites of passage, contact zones, and the American frontiers -- Double consciousness in the borderlands : the frontier autobiographies of James P. Beckwourth and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- The second coming of trickster : culture contact and trickster border narratives -- Bartered brides and compulsory bachelors on the Chinese American frontier : the short stories of Sui Sin Far -- Arranged betrothals and mixed marriages : the Japanese American romances of Onoto Watanna -- Conservation, anthropology, and the closed frontier : the southwestern writings of Mary Austin.
Responsibility: Noreen Groover Lape.

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