TY - BOOK ID - 12043833 TI - Faithful transgressions in the American West PY - 2004 SN - 1283267179 9786613267177 0874214955 087421551X 9780874214956 9780874215519 9781283267175 6613267171 PB - Logan Utah State University Press DB - UniCat KW - American prose literature - Mormon authors - History and criticism. KW - American prose literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism. KW - American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism. KW - American prose literature. KW - Autobiography - Women authors. KW - West (U.S.) - Biography - History and criticism. KW - Women - West (U.S.) - Intellectual life. KW - Women and literature - West (U.S.). KW - Women authors, American - Biography - History and criticism. KW - Women authors, American - Homes and haunts - West (U.S.). KW - Women pioneers - Biography - History and criticism. KW - American prose literature KW - Autobiography KW - Women authors, American KW - Women pioneers KW - Mormon women KW - Women KW - Women and literature KW - American Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Mormon authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Biography KW - Homes and haunts KW - Intellectual life KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Mormon authors. KW - Women authors. KW - West (U.S.) KW - Autobiography of women KW - Women's autobiography KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Women, Mormon KW - Frontier women KW - Pioneer women KW - American women authors KW - Technique KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Literature KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Christian women KW - Pioneers KW - American literature KW - Latter Day Saint women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12043833 AB - The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeply ER -