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- Title
At Home with Transience: Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping.
- Authors
Crisu, Corina
- Abstract
In Housekeeping, Robinson uses literary, philosophical, and religious sources to incorporate her heroines in a palimpsest novel about the American West. She challenges masculine archetypes of stories about the frontier, thus opening possibilities for imagining female identities outside the gender constraints of the popular Western. Through her characters Ruth Stone and her aunt Sylvie, Robinson enters the literature of the West into a cultural dialogue about freedom, self-making, and domesticity that is inclusive of major nineteenth century American authors.
- Subjects
HOUSEKEEPING (Book); ROBINSON, Marilynne, 1943-; WOMEN heroes in literature; FRONTIER &; pioneer life in literature; 19TH century American literature
- Publication
Dialogue (15749630), 2015, Vol 19, p38
- ISSN
1574-9630
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004302235_004