Laura Ingalls Wilder : a biography /
Anderson, William.
Laura Ingalls Wilder : a biography / by William Anderson. - New york : Harper Collins, 1995. - 240 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Children's Literature Association Series .
Includes index.
"Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume's contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance."--Provided by publisher.
0060885521 9780060885526
2018057425
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 Little house books.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Political and social views.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Influence.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Women pioneers--United States--Biography.
PS3545.I342 / Z826
813/.52 A545l 1995
Laura Ingalls Wilder : a biography / by William Anderson. - New york : Harper Collins, 1995. - 240 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Children's Literature Association Series .
Includes index.
"Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, Pioneer Girl. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. The collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume's contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance."--Provided by publisher.
0060885521 9780060885526
2018057425
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 Little house books.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Political and social views.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957 --Influence.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Women pioneers--United States--Biography.
PS3545.I342 / Z826
813/.52 A545l 1995