Zitkala-Ša and the Problem of Regionalism
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006Nations, Narratives, and Critical Traditions Although Yankton Sioux writer Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938) was, as P. Jane Hafen notes, “virtually unknown for many decades” (Dreams 165), much critical work has appeared since Dexter Fisher’s 1979 article, “Zitkala-Ša: Evolution of a Writer.” Some critics desiring to bring a into the conversation about turn-of-the-century American women writers [...]