{"product_id":"reconsidering-laura-ingalls-wilder-little-house-and-beyond-9781496823083","title":"Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond","description":"Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens, and Jericho Williams \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e Little House and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published and unrevised \u003ci\u003eThe First Four Years\u003c\/i\u003e, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography, \u003ci\u003ePioneer Girl\u003c\/i\u003e. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, collaborator and editor Rose Wilder Lane, and other biographical materials. Contributors analyze the current state of Wilder studies, delineating Wilder's place in a canon of increasingly diverse US women writers, and attending in particular to issues of gender, femininity, space and place, truth, and collaboration, among other issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection argues that Wilder's work and her contributions to US children's literature, western literature, and the pioneer experience must be considered in context with problematic racialized representations of peoples of color, specifically Native Americans. While Wilder's fiction accurately represents the experiences of white settlers, it also privileges their experiences and validates, explicitly and implicitly, the erasure of Native American peoples and culture. The volume's contributors engage critically with Wilder's writings, interrogating them, acknowledging their limitations, and enhancing ongoing conversations about them while placing them in context with other voices, works, and perspectives that can bring into focus larger truths about North American history. \u003ci\u003eReconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder\u003c\/i\u003e examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiranda A. Green-Barteet\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in both the Department of Women's Studies and Department of English and Writing at University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFemale Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRace in Young Adult Speculative Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eCanadian Review of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Central Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of African American Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAnne K. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis professor of English at Kansas State University. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Insights: Louisa May Alcott\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCritical Insights: Little Women\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eFrontiers in American Children's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJames Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature Association Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50416401416466,"sku":"9781496823083","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a303f243-1a7b-4f0d-bf34-93826d12e6b5.jpg?v=1729418132","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reconsidering-laura-ingalls-wilder-little-house-and-beyond-9781496823083","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}