Graduate Presentation by Micah Drew

Susan Stanford Friedman. (1998). Mappings: feminism and the cultural geographies of encounter. Princeton University Press. Retrieved February 11, 2010, from Google Books database

Theory connects
Jane Smiley. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
and
Caroline Kirkland's (pen name Mary Clavers). A New Home, Who'll Follow?
Friedman says identity constantly evolving and not tied to origin - we go to places; values add at each pause (153). Migration

Theme of Moving
They can never go back to who they were at the beginning.
Lidie cannot go back to Quincy.
Mary cannot go back to the East.
What happens to a women forced to change rapidly and quickly?
What future does she have - how to be a woman?
Does the novel narrate Lidie's escape or path to jaded acceptance?

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