Margot Mifflin

Broschiertes Buch

The Blue Tattoo

The Life of Olive Oatman

Beschreibung

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.

Autor

Margot Mifflin is an author and journalist who writes about women, art, and contemporary culture. The author of Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo, she has written for many publications, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, the Believer, and Salon.com. Mifflin is a professor in the English Department of Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and directs the Arts and Culture program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she also teaches. 

Produktdetails

• Women in the West
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780803235175
• ISBN-10: 0803235178
• Artikelnr.: 32739448