Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.
Trade Review"Sandoz's excerpts and the interpretive essays are interesting and well paired, making this little book a valuable contribution to 'expanding interest and research into Sandoz and her work.' It will be ideal for Sandoz Studies and appeal to diverse readers' book groups, and high school and university classes."—Betsy Downey,
Great Plains Quarterly"This new Sandoz Studies series promises to consolidate and advance the state of Sandoz scholarship for Nebraska and to deepen literary consciousness for the entirety of the Great Plains."—Thomas D. Isern,
South Dakota HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Foreword, by John Wunder
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith
1. These Were the Sandhills Women: Stories, Images, and Mari Sandoz
Renée M. Laegreid
2. The Vine
Mari Sandoz
3. The Gender of Drought in Mari Sandoz’s “The Vine”
Lisa Pollard
4. Excerpt from Slogum House
Mari Sandoz
5. Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House: Greed as Woman
Glenda Riley
6. Excerpt from “What the Sioux Taught Me”
Mari Sandoz
7. Women in These Were the Sioux: Mari Sandoz’s Portrayal of Gender
Shannon D. Smith
8. Sandoz Constructing Women with “Well-Knit Bone and Nerve”: Androgyny and Activism on the Great Plains
Jillian Wenburg
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
