Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
How does one describe the nature of this place that is the Great Plains? Diane Quantic and P. Jane Hafen do not attempt to answer that question in A Great Plains Reader, a marvelous collection of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction reflecting varied responses to the land and its inhabitants. They do, however, initiate a process of discovery and inquiry that compels the collection's reader to consider past and present, physical and psychological boundaries, and placement and displacement. And to that end, the title reflects the editors' double concern with both product and process: to compile a set of readings on the Great Plains experience, and to invite one to become a reader of the Great Plains.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.