Women Storytellers of the American West

Shaping Stories with Changing Media, 1860-1975

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Examining American history through female storytelling about and within the American West in literature, film, radio, theater, and television. It spotlights how women across various communities developed archetype female characters from history, solidified female intellectual traditions, and chronicled shifts in society from San Francisco to Hollywood, and from the Midwest to Western boomtowns. Some women created novels, short stories, and dramas delineating or challenging gender roles, while others told stories to cut through male-dominating cowboy narratives. Also covered here are some of the naturalist/environmentalist writers who redefined women as equal partners to men in the Western landscape. Their collective works speak of a need for respect, reforms, and economic equity within marriage, self-determination, and full citizenship for themselves and their daughters. Written with the 21st century reader in mind, entries are organized chronologically and can be read as standalone accounts or together for a more comprehensive view. Sidebars provide a nuanced look at similarities and differences within Western female writing about environment, race, colonialism, and gender.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-03-04
Mått:178 x 254 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798216390343

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Meredith Eliassen, MSLIS, it a special collections librarian and university archivist at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA. She received her MSLIS from Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and a BA from San Francisco State University in broadcast communication arts. Eliassen is interested in Western history, folklore, and design. She is the author of Helen Keller: A Life in American History (2021) and San Francisco State University (2007).

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChronologyIntroduction: Storytelling and American "Effective Settlement" Part I: The West Before the New Media1. The Decline of the Primordial Storytellers (Pre-history to the Gold Rush)2. The Seeds for Archetype Characters in Boomtown San Francisco (1848-1859)3. Women Writers Establishing Counterpoints to the “Golden Era” (1859-1870)4. San Francisco’s Professional Women and the New Resistance (1869-1879)5. Allegory as Speculative and Science Fiction (1867-1910)6. The Evolution of the Stylistic Newspaper Woman (1890-1900)7. The Naturalists and Cultural Synthesizers (1890-1919)Part 2: Creating New Memory for New Media8. “Les Jeunes” (The Youth) and San Francisco’s Bohemian Aesthetic (1880-1915)9. The Great Shake Up: The Earthquake and Marketing Media (1906-1915)10. Native Americans and the Breakup of Historic Memory (1870-1923)11. Characterizing Chinese in California, 1848-191912. Women and the Emergence of Young Adult Literature (1901-1915)13. The Propagandists: Ensemble Narratives and New Media (1907-1924)14. Storytelling about the Wyoming Cattle Wars (1902)Part 3: The Citizen Female Storyteller Educating from the West with Changing Media15. Pulp Fiction Redefining Gender Roles (1906-1923)16. Young Women Drive the Hollywood Boom as Extra-Girls (1918-1929)17. Radio Land, Pulp Fiction, and the Decline of Real Cowboys (1920-1939)18. Pulp Fiction Re-imagining Idealized Gender Roles in Family Movies (1930-1945)19. Women Repurposing of Pulp Fiction with Changing Media (1939-1959)20. Tokenism in Media Storytelling from World War II to the Vietnam War (1940-1975)21. Reinventing the American Western for Changing Media Consumers (1957-1979) Part 4: Primary SourcesCondensed Version of the Constitutional DebatesMiscellaneous Newspaper AdvertisementsPoetry of the Pacific: Selections and Original Poems from Poets of the Pacific, edited by May Wentworth. San Francisco: Pacific Publishing Company, 1867.Adeline Knapp OutlookJosephine Clifford McCrackin: “A Lady in a Forest Fire”B. M. Bower Illustrates the Female MaverickMary Austin Songs and Juveniles Shaping MemoryAnna Verona Dorris on Audio-Visual InstructionDorothy M. Johnson on Expression in Business Letter-WritingScript Extra Gunsmoke, “The Summons” Not UsedGlossary of American Western Terms and TropesBibliographyAbout the Author