Writing together, writing apart : collaboration in Western American literature
Asks broad questions about how writing in general is produced. This title challenges the definition of an author as an individual genius who creates original works of art in isolation. It provides a close analysis of the various means by which writers work with others to produce their final literary products.
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xli, 219 pages ; 24 cm
9780803227491, 0803227493
49226378
Introduction: Collaborative endeavors/collaborative texts
Writing together/writing apart: the politics of collaboration in Western American literature
Partners in collaboration: Louise Erdich and Michael Dorris
A question of perspectives: collaboration and literary authority in Mourning dove's Cogewea
Mary Austin, I-Mary, and Mary-by-herself: collaboration in Earth horizon
Collaboration and contradiction in the Western memoir: Ivan Doig, Mary Clearman Blew, and William Kittredge
"Her future and my past": collaborating with history in Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose
Afterword: Collaboration and Western authorship