Writing Life, Writing Back, and Writing Through: Saloma Miller Furlong’s Why I Left the Amish: A Memoir and Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds

Sabrina Völz

doi:10.18061/1811/79928

Writing Life, Writing Back, and Writing Through: Saloma Miller Furlong’s Why I Left the Amish: A Memoir and Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds

Sabrina Völz

Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › Begutachtung

Abstract

Originalsprache	Englisch
Zeitschrift	Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
Jahrgang	4
Ausgabenummer	2
Seiten (von - bis)	201-219
Seitenumfang	19
ISSN	2471-6391
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/79928
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 2016

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Nordamerikastudien
Amish
Ex-Amish
Memoir
Identity crisis
Plain People
Religious Minority
Gender und Diversity
Identity Construction
RESISTANCE
Abuse
Ex-Amish
gender
Literaturwissenschaft
Memoir
Serial Memoir

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Writing Life, Writing Back, and Writing Through: Saloma Miller Furlong’s Why I Left the Amish: A Memoir and Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds

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