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Author Pratt, Linda Ray, author.

Title Great Plains Literature / Linda Ray Pratt
Published [Place of publication not identified] : University of Nebraska Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Discover the Great Plains
Discover the Great Plains.
Contents 1. Under spacious skies -- 2. Fencing in the first people -- 3. Taking the land in Rölvaag's immigrant saga -- 4. Cather and the end of the "west" -- 5. Dissent and the Great Depression -- 6. City living on the edge -- 7. The circle toward home -- Appendix. Great Plains literary sites to visit
Summary Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, declining rural communities, and growing urban populations. In addition to featuring writers such as Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Willa Cather, and John Neihardt, who address the epic stories of the past, Great Plains Literature also includes contemporary writers such as Louis Erdrich, Kent Haruf, Ted Kooser, Rilla Askew, N. Scott Momaday, and Margaret Laurence. This literature encompasses a history of courage and violence, aggrandizement and aggression, triumph and terror. It can help readers understand better how today's threats to the environment, clashes with Native people, struggling small towns, and rural migration to the cities reflect the same forces that were important in the past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 25, 2018)
Subject Americans -- Great Plains -- History
Canadians -- Great Plains -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Americans
Canadians
Civilization
SUBJECT North America -- Civilization -- History
Subject Great Plains
North America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496204820
1496204824