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- Title
Resistance to Containment and Conquest in Sarah Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who Would Have Thought It?
- Authors
Lowrance, A. Laurie
- Abstract
The article examines the resistance to containment and conquest in "Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" by Sarah Winnemucca and "Who Would Have Thought It" by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. It explores the changing role of women in these novels. It examines Ruiz de Burton and Winnemucca's racist belief and comments toward Native Americans, and their depictions of racialized mothers in their novels.
- Subjects
LIFE Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs &; Claims (Book); WHO Would Have Thought It? (Book); HOPKINS, Sarah Winnemucca, ca. 1844-1891; RUIZ de Burton, Maria Amparo, 1832-1895; 19TH century American fiction; WOMEN in literature; LITERARY criticism; AMERICAN fiction
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2018, Vol 52, Issue 4, p379
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2018.0000