Stories from the country of Lost borders

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Stories from the country of Lost borders

Mary Austin ; edited and with an introduction by Marjorie Pryse

(American women writers series / Joanne Dobson, Judith Fetterley, and Elaine Showalter, series editors)

Rutgers University Press, c1987

  • pbk.

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Lost borders

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Bibliography: p. xxxix-xl

Contents of Works

  • The land of little rain
  • Lost borders

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780813512174

Table of Contents

The land of little rain -- Lost borders.
Volume

pbk. ISBN 9780813512181

Description

Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story "as another character, as the instigator of plot," and that the story must reflect "the essential qualities of the land." In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Notes to Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Texts The Land of Little Rain Lost Borders Glossary of Spanish and Indian Terms

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