Fictions of Western American domesticity : Indian, Mexican, and Anglo women in print culture, 1850–1950 / Amanda J. Zink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zink, Amanda J. (Amanda Jane), 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Housekeeping in literature.

Housewives in literature.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

Racism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Women and literature--West (U.S.)--History.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.

Summary:

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional?.

Contents:

Introduction: The literature of modern American domesticity

Delegating domesticity: white women writers and the new American housekeepers

Dialoging domesticity: resisting and assimilating "The American lady" in early Mexican American women's writing

Regulating domesticity: Carlisle School's publications and children's books for "American princesses"

Practicing domesticity: from domestic outing programs to sovereign domesticity

Epilogue. Fashioning femininity: "Types of American girls"; "Types of Indian girls"; and the "Wrong kind of [Mexican] woman"

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826359193

0826359191

OCLC:

1030993310