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 Reconsidering Laura
Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond offers a sustained,
critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little
House series, her posthumously published and unrevised The First
Four Years, her letters, her journalism, and her autobiography,
Pioneer Girl. 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. The 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. Reconsidering Laura
Ingalls Wilder examines Wilder's strengths and weaknesses as it
discusses her writings with context, awareness, and nuance.
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