West of the border the multicultural literature of the Western American frontiers - Lape, Noreen Groover (Ohio University Press, 2000)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
Introduction : rites of passage, contact zones, and the American frontiers -- Double consciousness in the borderlands : the frontier autobiographies of James P. Beckwourth and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- The second coming of trickster : culture contact and trickster border narratives -- Bartered brides and compulsory bachelors on the Chinese American frontier : the short stories of Sui Sin Far -- Arranged betrothals and mixed marriages : the Japanese American romances of Onoto Watanna -- Conservation, anthropology, and the closed frontier : the southwestern writings of Mary Austin