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    Sandoz Studies, Volume 1
    Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz

    Renée M. Laegreid (Edited by), Shannon D. Smith (Edited by), John R. Wunder (Foreword by)

    9781496215956

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2019

    168 pages, 10 photographs, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.256 kg

    "Sandoz's excerpts and the interpretive essays are interesting and well paired, making this little book a valuable contribution to 'expanding interest and research into Sandoz and her work.' It will be ideal for Sandoz Studies and appeal to diverse readers' book groups, and high school and university classes."-Betsy Downey, Great Plains Quarterly
    "This new Sandoz Studies series promises to consolidate and advance the state of Sandoz scholarship for Nebraska and to deepen literary consciousness for the entirety of the Great Plains."-Thomas D. Isern, South Dakota History

    Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family’s remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail combined with meticulous research enabled her to become one of the most valued authorities of her time on the history of the plains and the culture of Native Americans.

    Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. When Sandoz wrote about the women she knew and studied, she did not shy away from drawing attention to the sacrifices, hardships, and disappointments they endured to forge a life in the harsh plains environment. But she also wrote about moments of joy, friendship, and-for some-a connection to the land that encouraged them to carry on.

    The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz contained in this book help place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.
     

    List of Illustrations    
    Foreword, by John Wunder    
    Acknowledgments    
    Introduction    
    RenÉ
    e M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith
    1. These Were the Sandhills Women: Stories, Images, and Mari Sandoz    
    RenÉ
    e M. Laegreid
    2. The Vine    
    Mari Sandoz
    3. The Gender of Drought in Mari Sandoz’
    s “
    The Vine”
        
    Lisa Pollard
    4. Excerpt from Slogum House    
    Mari Sandoz
    5. Mari Sandoz’
    s Slogum House: Greed as Woman    
    Glenda Riley
    6. Excerpt from “
    What the Sioux Taught Me”
        
    Mari Sandoz
    7. Women in These Were the Sioux: Mari Sandoz’
    s Portrayal of Gender    
    Shannon D. Smith
    8. Sandoz Constructing Women with “
    Well-Knit Bone and Nerve”
    : Androgyny and Activism on the Great Plains    
    Jillian Wenburg
    Bibliography    
    List of Contributors    
    Index    
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