Faithful transgressions in the American West : : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / / Laura L. Bush.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.