I Am a Stranger Here Myself

Debra Gwartney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6071-7 (ISBN)

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Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to ""settle"" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.

Debra Gwartney is the author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love and the coeditor of Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. She teaches in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program and lives in Western Oregon.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	433 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
ISBN-10	0-8263-6071-8 / 0826360718
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-6071-7 / 9780826360717
Zustand	Neuware