TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson, William.
TI  - Laura Ingalls Wilder: a biography 
T2  - Children's Literature Association Series
SN  - 0060885521
AV  - PS3545.I342 Z826 
U1  - 813/.52 A545l 1995 23
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New york
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - Wilder, Laura Ingalls,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; English Language and Literature
N2  - "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
ER  -