The object of this essay is to draw attention to the historical, cultural and literary importance of Sister Blandina Segale’s journal At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, written between 1872 and 1893 and published in 1923. It aims to show how Segale’s work, long neglected by scholars, is simultaneously a chronicle of American territorial expansion and frontier life, a testimony of the unique opportunities that the West offered women missionaries for action beyond traditional gender boundaries, and an early entry in the emerging canon of Italian American literature. Common to these three facets of At the End is the issue of cultural, religious, and ethnic confrontation between the dominant Anglo-Americans and the Hispanic and Native American populations of the Southwest, a confrontation which Sister Blandina documented and analyzed with remarkable lucidity and perceptiveness.
Alla conquista del West: il diario di Sister Blandina Segale
BUONOMO, LEONARDO
2008-01-01
Abstract
The object of this essay is to draw attention to the historical, cultural and literary importance of Sister Blandina Segale’s journal At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, written between 1872 and 1893 and published in 1923. It aims to show how Segale’s work, long neglected by scholars, is simultaneously a chronicle of American territorial expansion and frontier life, a testimony of the unique opportunities that the West offered women missionaries for action beyond traditional gender boundaries, and an early entry in the emerging canon of Italian American literature. Common to these three facets of At the End is the issue of cultural, religious, and ethnic confrontation between the dominant Anglo-Americans and the Hispanic and Native American populations of the Southwest, a confrontation which Sister Blandina documented and analyzed with remarkable lucidity and perceptiveness.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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