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Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / Laura L. Bush.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bush, Laura L., 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Mormon authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- 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.
- Women authors, American--Homes and haunts--West (U.S.).
- Women pioneers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women pioneers.
- Latter Day Saint women--Biography--History and criticism.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Women--West (U.S.)--Intellectual life.
- Women.
- Women and literature--West (U.S.).
- Women and literature.
- Autobiography--Mormon authors.
- Autobiography.
- Autobiography--Women authors.
- West (U.S.)--Biography--History and criticism.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeply
- Contents:
- Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier
- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother
- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier
- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story
- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place
- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613267177
- 9781283267175
- 1283267179
- 9780874214956
- 0874214955
- OCLC:
- 437176716
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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