"More or Less Sudden and Sometimes Great": Turbulence in the Edited West

Rachel Brown

University of Kansas

Rachel Linnea Brown is a doctoral candidate in nineteenth-century American literature at the University of Kansas. Her dissertation traces how locally published autobiographical texts expose the process of settler colonialism in the U.S. (Mid)West, namely Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota.  Brown earned her MFA in poetry from Colorado State University in 2014, and her writing has previously appeared in Gulf Coast, Subtropics, South Dakota Review, and Black Warrior Review, among other journals.

Abstract

          Editorial shaping by white women—an infrequently discussed aspect of female cultural production in the West—helped establish a mainstream perception of the region as both picturesquely unsettled (turbulent)... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Rachel Brown (University of Kansas)

Topic Area

Feminist Critical Regionalism and the Climate of Western Literary Studies

Session

S3 » Seminar 3: Feminist Critical Regionalism and the Climate of Western Literary Studies (15:45 - Thursday, 22nd March, Boardroom East)

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