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Lamentations - A Novel of Women Walking West (Paperback)
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Lamentations - A Novel of Women Walking West (Paperback)
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Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families
crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen
women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written
record of her journey, the company clerk’s daily notations
provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records
and the author’s own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen
provides an interpretation of the women’s thoughts and feelings
as events played out in and around the wagons heading west. In this
novel the men are in the background—and we hear the women ponder
the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how
they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native
Americans they encounter, and their changing
roles. Lamentations is about women’s reality as wives or
unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as
explorers of the land. Kammen gives voice to these women as
they consider a strange new land and the people who inhabit it,
mulling over what they, as women of their time, could not say
aloud. We see the mental and emotional impact of events such as the
naming of peoples and lands, of a husband’s suicide, of giving
birth, and of ongoing and uncertain interactions with Native
peoples from the Missouri River crossing all the way to Oregon.
They face the difficulties of the road, the slow trust that builds
between some of them, and the oddities of the men with whom they
travel. These women move from silent witnesses within a constrained
gender sphere to articulate observers of a complicated world they
ultimately helped to shape.
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2021 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Carol Kammen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4962-2781-2 |
Categories: |
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Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
1-4962-2781-6 |
Barcode: |
9781496227812 |
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