West of the border

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"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a white southwestern writer - each of these intercultural writers faces a rite of passage into a new social order. Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment.". "In West of the Border Noreen Groover Lape raises issues inherent in American pluralism today by broaching timely concerns about American frontier politics, conceptualizing frontiers as intercultural contact zones, and expanding the boundaries of frontier literary studies by giving voice to minority writers."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Multiculturalism in literature,  Intellectual life,  Ethnicity in literature,  History and criticism,  American literature,  American Authors,  Homes and haunts,  Minority authors,  Women and literature,  In literature,  Frontier and pioneer life in literature,  Etats-Unis (Ouest) dans la litterature,  Auteurs issus des minorites,  Histoire,  Femmes dans la litterature,  American,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  Literature,  Histoire et critique,  General,  Litterature americaine,  Minderheitenliteratur,  Ethnicite dans la litterature,  Multiculturalisme dans la litterature,  American literature, minority authors,  American literature, history and criticism,  History

Places: West (U.S.)