Wynema : a child of the forest / S. Alice Callahan ; edited and introduced by A LaVonne Brown Ruoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callahan, S. Alice, 1868-1894.

Contributor:

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creek Indians--Fiction.

Creek Indians.

Indian women--Fiction.

Indian women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlviii, 118 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1997]

Summary:

Originally published in 1891, Wynema is the first novel known to have been written by a woman of American Indian descent. Set against the sweeping and often tragic cultural changes that affected southeastern native peoples during the late nineteenth century, it tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women from vastly different backgrounds -- Wynema Harjo, a Muscogee Indian, and Genevieve Weir, a Methodist teacher from a genteel Southern family. Both are firm believers in women's rights and Indian reform; both struggle to overcome prejudice and correct injustices between sexes and races. Callahan uses the conventional traditions of a sentimental domestic romance to deliver an elegant plea for tolerance, equality, and reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-118).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has some ms. underlines and marks in blue or black ink in text; some ms. marginal notes in black ink in text.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

080321460X

0803263783

OCLC:

35029616