Title: "The First White Women in the Last Frontier": Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives
Abstract:Describing her 1931 flight through Great Circle Route across the top of world, Anne Morrow Lindbergh confessed what most excited her about journey. As she explained, adventure of flying over Arctic wa...Describing her 1931 flight through Great Circle Route across the top of world, Anne Morrow Lindbergh confessed what most excited her about journey. As she explained, adventure of flying over Arctic was secondary to thrill of arriving at a place where no white woman had ever been before.' Lindbergh's confession speaks to a desire shared by many European American women travel writers, and, in doing so, employs a trope that highlights their yearning to assert agency and authority in nation-building projects. Serving as historical markers, as signs of success of European American expansion, white women travel writers who ventured into new lands often described themselves as first, claiming to be trailblazers who cleared path for other white women. In process, these female writers intervened in dominant colonial paradigms, foregrounding their contributions to U.S. expansionist projectsRead More
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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