Carolyn Sorisio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Sorisio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorisio |
| SIGNATURE | SORISIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Chester University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Sagebrush Journalism
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Introduction: Cross-Racial and Cross-Ethnic Collaboration and Scholarship: Contexts, Criticism, Challenges
My interest in editing a special issue of MELUS devoted to cross-racial and cross-ethnic collaboration and scholarship evolved from my investigation of newspaper accounts by and about the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute author and activist Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. These items present increased evidence regarding Winnemucca’s productive interracial collaboration with her editor Mary Peabody Mann, her manager and friend Elizabeth Palmer Peabody…
Sarah Winnemucca, Translation, and US Colonialism and Imperialism
I can speak five tongues--three Indian tongues, English and Spanish. I can read and write, and am a school teacher. Now I do not say this to boast, but simply to show you what can be done. --Sarah Winnemucca (qtd. in We have referred) Sarah Winnemucca, the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute translator, educator, author, and activist, lived within five languages. (1) To her, multilingualism was a source of power. (2) Nonetheless, throughout her li…
Playing the Indian Princess? Sarah Winnemucca's Newspaper Career and Performance of American Indian Identities
Playing the Indian Princess?:Sarah Winnemucca's Newspaper Career and Performance of American Indian Identities Carolyn Sorisio (bio) On May 2, 1883, the Northern Paiute educator, translator, author, and activist Sarah Winnemucca lectured at Boston's Hotel Winthrop, declaring: I can tell you how few of the Government supplies reach the Indians; how one little blanket was provided to shelter a family of six from the cold; how three blankets were su…
From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| March 01 2006 From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century. From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on …
Fleshing out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879
Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body American Literature, 1833-1879. By Carolyn Sorisio. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. x, 299. Cloth, $44.95.)The study of race and gender has been a staple of historical and literary scholarship for roughly forty years now, and the study of the body for at least half that long. In her recent book, Carolyn Sorisio adds to this tradition by comparing the contributions of…
The Spectacle of the Body: Torture in the Antislavery Writing of Lydia Maria Child and Frances E.W. Harper
Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath
When Elizabeth Keckley wrote her 1868 autobiography Behind Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years White House, one of her primary goals was to defend herself and Mary Todd Lincoln from public ridicule. Because Keckley most intimately associated that lady most eventful periods of her she tells readers that her character, as well as character of Mrs. Lincoln, is at stake (xiv). Keckley was particularly concerned about public reaction to o…
Sarah Winnemucca, Translation, and US Colonialism and Imperialism
I can speak five tongues--three Indian tongues, English and Spanish. I can read and write, and am a school teacher. Now I do not say this to boast, but simply to show you what can be done. --Sarah Winnemucca (qtd. in We have referred) Sarah Winnemucca, the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute translator, educator, author, and activist, lived within five languages. (1) To her, multilingualism was a source of power. (2) Nonetheless, throughout her li…
Fleshing out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879
Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body American Literature, 1833-1879. By Carolyn Sorisio. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. x, 299. Cloth, $44.95.)The study of race and gender has been a staple of historical and literary scholarship for roughly forty years now, and the study of the body for at least half that long. In her recent book, Carolyn Sorisio adds to this tradition by comparing the contributions of…
Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath
When Elizabeth Keckley wrote her 1868 autobiography Behind Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years White House, one of her primary goals was to defend herself and Mary Todd Lincoln from public ridicule. Because Keckley most intimately associated that lady most eventful periods of her she tells readers that her character, as well as character of Mrs. Lincoln, is at stake (xiv). Keckley was particularly concerned about public reaction to o…
The Spectacle of the Body: Torture in the Antislavery Writing of Lydia Maria Child and Frances E.W. Harper
Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath
When Elizabeth Keckley wrote her 1868 autobiography Behind Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years White House, one of her primary goals was to defend herself and Mary Todd Lincoln from public ridicule. Because Keckley most intimately associated that lady most eventful periods of her she tells readers that her character, as well as character of Mrs. Lincoln, is at stake (xiv). Keckley was particularly concerned about public reaction to o…
Fleshing out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879
Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body American Literature, 1833-1879. By Carolyn Sorisio. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. x, 299. Cloth, $44.95.)The study of race and gender has been a staple of historical and literary scholarship for roughly forty years now, and the study of the body for at least half that long. In her recent book, Carolyn Sorisio adds to this tradition by comparing the contributions of…
From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Book Review| March 01 2006 From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century. From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on …
Playing the Indian Princess? Sarah Winnemucca's Newspaper Career and Performance of American Indian Identities
Playing the Indian Princess?:Sarah Winnemucca's Newspaper Career and Performance of American Indian Identities Carolyn Sorisio (bio) On May 2, 1883, the Northern Paiute educator, translator, author, and activist Sarah Winnemucca lectured at Boston's Hotel Winthrop, declaring: I can tell you how few of the Government supplies reach the Indians; how one little blanket was provided to shelter a family of six from the cold; how three blankets were su…
Sarah Winnemucca, Translation, and US Colonialism and Imperialism
I can speak five tongues--three Indian tongues, English and Spanish. I can read and write, and am a school teacher. Now I do not say this to boast, but simply to show you what can be done. --Sarah Winnemucca (qtd. in We have referred) Sarah Winnemucca, the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute translator, educator, author, and activist, lived within five languages. (1) To her, multilingualism was a source of power. (2) Nonetheless, throughout her li…
Introduction: Cross-Racial and Cross-Ethnic Collaboration and Scholarship: Contexts, Criticism, Challenges
My interest in editing a special issue of MELUS devoted to cross-racial and cross-ethnic collaboration and scholarship evolved from my investigation of newspaper accounts by and about the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute author and activist Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. These items present increased evidence regarding Winnemucca’s productive interracial collaboration with her editor Mary Peabody Mann, her manager and friend Elizabeth Palmer Peabody…
The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Sagebrush Journalism
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