Sandoz Studies, Volume 3: Confronting Fascism in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House: Sandoz Studies
Editat de Renée M. Laegreid Introducere de Peter Boagen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2026
When first published in 1937 Slogum House faced harsh reviews: Cities and libraries banned it, politicians decried its negative portrayal of frontier life, and readers wrote to Sandoz, chastising her for coarse language and tawdry scenes. But Sandoz’s historical knowledge, coupled with her unflinching personal observations, created a work that challenged a complacent and exceptionalist narrative of the region. These multidisciplinary essays reveal how Slogum House unsettled readers and critics and continues to offer lessons for Sandoz’s time as well as our own.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496249302
ISBN-10: 1496249305
Pagini: 164
Ilustrații: 5 photographs, 3 illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Sandoz Studies
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496249305
Pagini: 164
Ilustrații: 5 photographs, 3 illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Sandoz Studies
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Renée M. Laegreid is Andrew Allen Excellence Fellow in Western History and a professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She is a coeditor of Sandoz Studies, Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Nebraska, 2024), bronze winner of the 2025 Will Rogers Medallion for Western nonfiction.
Cuprins
Introduction: So Glum a House
PETER BOAG
1. Mari Sandoz Slogum House: Greed as Woman
GLENDA RILEY
2. Sandoz, Webb, and the Environment as Actor in Slogum House
ANDY GRAYBULL
3. High Plains Wendigo: Ways of Knowing in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House
MATT EVERTSON
4. Analyzing the use of animals in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House
JESSICA GREER
5. Slogum House and Buying Sex in the American West
NIKKI BURG BURIN
6. It’s no particular honor to be banned in Omaha, and no reflection either.”: Mari Sandoz, Obscenity, and Banning Slogum House
NATHAN TYE
PETER BOAG
1. Mari Sandoz Slogum House: Greed as Woman
GLENDA RILEY
2. Sandoz, Webb, and the Environment as Actor in Slogum House
ANDY GRAYBULL
3. High Plains Wendigo: Ways of Knowing in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House
MATT EVERTSON
4. Analyzing the use of animals in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House
JESSICA GREER
5. Slogum House and Buying Sex in the American West
NIKKI BURG BURIN
6. It’s no particular honor to be banned in Omaha, and no reflection either.”: Mari Sandoz, Obscenity, and Banning Slogum House
NATHAN TYE
Recenzii
“This timely, creative, and compelling collection of essays reclaims Mari Sandoz’s often-forgotten insights on authoritarianism. She—and they—have much to teach us.”—Michael J. Lansing, coeditor of Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West
“Mari Sandoz’s depiction of tyrannical rule in Slogum House has captivated readers since its publication in 1937. The gracefully executed essays in this volume explain why Slogum House remains a useful way to understand U.S. history nearly a century later.”—Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Texas: An American History
“Through this vibrant collection, we come to know Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House as a prescient novel, flashing forward as a warning and an analysis of the settler-colonial roots of American fascism. This brutal novel reveals much about the fascistic violence undergirding the ‘American Dream,’ not only ‘how we got here,’ but how we were here all along.”—Julie Carr, author of Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
“Mari Sandoz’s depiction of tyrannical rule in Slogum House has captivated readers since its publication in 1937. The gracefully executed essays in this volume explain why Slogum House remains a useful way to understand U.S. history nearly a century later.”—Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Texas: An American History
“Through this vibrant collection, we come to know Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House as a prescient novel, flashing forward as a warning and an analysis of the settler-colonial roots of American fascism. This brutal novel reveals much about the fascistic violence undergirding the ‘American Dream,’ not only ‘how we got here,’ but how we were here all along.”—Julie Carr, author of Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
Descriere
Mari Sandoz’s grim allegorical novel about fascism, Slogum House, remains as relevant today as when published in 1937. These essays explore the novel’s complexity, relatable themes, and timelessness.