04428nam 2200865 a 450 991021382670332120200520144314.01-283-26717-997866132671770-87421-495-5(CKB)1000000000344124(EBL)287118(OCoLC)437176716(SSID)ssj0000359959(PQKBManifestationID)11286907(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359959(PQKBWorkID)10318855(PQKB)11538037(MiAaPQ)EBC3442726(MdBmJHUP)muse16391(Au-PeEL)EBL3442726(CaPaEBR)ebr10328638(CaONFJC)MIL326717(OCoLC)932313390(MiAaPQ)EBC287118(Au-PeEL)EBL287118(EXLCZ)99100000000034412420031208d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFaithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /Laura L. Bush1st ed.Logan Utah State University Press20041 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-551-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index.Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeplyAmerican prose literatureMormon authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWest (U.S.)History and criticismWomen authors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticismWomen authors, AmericanHomes and hauntsWest (U.S.)Women pioneersBiographyHistory and criticismMormon womenBiographyHistory and criticismWomenWest (U.S.)Intellectual lifeWomen and literatureWest (U.S.)AutobiographyMormon authorsAutobiographyWomen authorsWest (U.S.)BiographyHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureMormon authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Women authors, AmericanHistory and criticism.Women authors, AmericanHomes and hauntsWomen pioneersBiographyHistory and criticism.Mormon womenBiographyHistory and criticism.WomenIntellectual life.Women and literatureAutobiographyMormon authors.AutobiographyWomen authors.810.9/9287BBush Laura L.1963-913841MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910213826703321Faithful transgressions in the American West2047509UNINA