'Accurate History and Facts' or Memoir?: Unravelling the Weave of History and Life Narrative in the Black Hills. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Accurate History and Facts' or Memoir?: Unravelling the Weave of History and Life Narrative in the Black Hills. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'Accurate History and Facts' or Memoir?: Unravelling the Weave of History and Life Narrative in the Black Hills
- Authors:
- Beard, Laura J.
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This essay explores how John S. McClintock's Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: Accurate History and Facts Related by One of the Early Day Pioneers, originally published in 1939 and republished by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2000, is employed as a historical source by historians and in popular cultural contexts (including by scriptwriters for the HBO series 'Deadwood'). The essay underscores palpable tensions in a text in which McClintock presents himself as an eyewitness to key moments in Black Hills history, yet claims not to want to speak of himself. Tracing these tensions in the text reveals interesting insights into how we read and classify forms of life narratives and how those life narratives may serve historical understanding and writing. In writing of a life narrative written by an ancestor, I discuss my own relation to the man and the memoir as well the challenges that arise in working on life narratives by kin.
- Is Part Of:
- Life writing. Volume 16:Issue 4(2019)
- Journal:
- Life writing
- Issue:
- Volume 16:Issue 4(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 16, Issue 4 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0016-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 539
- Page End:
- 551
- Publication Date:
- 2019-10-02
- Subjects:
- Black Hills -- American West -- personal testimony -- Deadwood, South Dakota
Biography as a literary form -- Periodicals
Autobiography -- Periodicals
809.93592 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14484528.asp ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/14484528.2019.1633247 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1448-4528
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 5208.965150
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- 12716.xml