A Response to “Grief became my friend, my work:” Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union with Memory in LeAnne Howe’s SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS (2019), by Stefanie Schäfer

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  • Sirpa Salenius

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18422/74-1392

Keywords:

First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln, motherhood, memory culture, settler colonialism

Abstract

A Response to “Grief became my friend, my work:” Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union with Memory in LeAnne Howe’s Savage Conversations (2019), by Stefanie Schäfer

Author Biography

Sirpa Salenius

Sirpa Salenius, PhD, is Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA) in Paris, France, an External Affiliate at the University College London (UCL) Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (London, UK), and is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland), where she worked as Senior Lecturer in American Studies. She was the recipient of Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow at Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2020–21. She is presently dedicating her time to doing research in Florence, Italy where she resides.

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Published

2023-09-15

How to Cite

Salenius, S. “A Response to ‘Grief Became My Friend, My work:’ Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union With Memory in LeAnne Howe’s SAVAGE CONVERSATIONS (2019), by Stefanie Schäfer”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, vol. 74, Sept. 2023, https://doi.org/10.18422/74-1392.

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Vol. 74 (2023): Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long Nineteenth Century

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