Dakota (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Kathleen Norris
- First Published: 1993
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Nature, Marriage, Midwest, Spiritual life or spirituality, Small-town life, Weather
- Locales: South Dakota
The Work
In Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris writes about the stark, scarcely populated landscapes of western North and South Dakota. Norris writes of a harsh and beautiful country, of small towns rich in immigrant traditions, of a Benedictine monastery as sacred as the grasslands surrounding it, and of her journey toward constructing a literary and spiritual life.
Dakota, a nonfiction work, is part autobiography, part religious meditation, and part social history. The book captures the specific character of the European American immigrants...
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