LEADER 04428nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910213826703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26717-9 010 $a9786613267177 010 $a0-87421-495-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000344124 035 $a(EBL)287118 035 $a(OCoLC)437176716 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000359959 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11286907 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359959 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10318855 035 $a(PQKB)11538037 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442726 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328638 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326717 035 $a(OCoLC)932313390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC287118 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL287118 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000344124 100 $a20031208d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFaithful transgressions in the American West $esix twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /$fLaura L. Bush 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLogan $cUtah State University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87421-551-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index. 327 $aNarrating 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. 330 $aThe 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 deeply 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xMormon authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen authors, American$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen authors, American$xHomes and haunts$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aWomen pioneers$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMormon women$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen$zWest (U.S.)$xIntellectual life 606 $aWomen and literature$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aAutobiography$xMormon authors 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 607 $aWest (U.S.)$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xMormon authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen authors, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen authors, American$xHomes and haunts 615 0$aWomen pioneers$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMormon women$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aAutobiography$xMormon authors. 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 676 $a810.9/9287 676 $aB 700 $aBush$b Laura L.$f1963-$0913841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910213826703321 996 $aFaithful transgressions in the American West$92047509 997 $aUNINA