Ramona (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Maria Fiske
- First Published: 1884
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Missions or missionaries, California, Native Americans or American Indians, Land settlement
The Work
Ramona is an evocation of Indian and Spanish life in early California. In the first half of the novel, Ramona, who is half Indian, half Scot and who has been reared by a Spanish matriarch, falls in love with Alessandro, son of a mission Indian. After a series of complications in the plot, the lovers triumph and, in the middle of the book, elope. Helen Hunt Jackson sets the common motives of greed, love, and pride in the context of differing ethnic backgrounds, treating the Spanish and Indian cultures with sympathy. For many readers, the appeal of the story lies...
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