Tag Archives: Nephi Anderson

Nephi Anderson at the Annual SASS Conference

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Scott Hales

Next week, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies will be holding its annual conference in San Francisco. For this year’s conference, a few of us have put together a panel on Nephi Anderson that focuses on his Scandinavian … Continue reading →

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Five Nephi Anderson Novels You Should Read Before You Die

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Scott Hales

This week I plan to finish my dissertation chapter on Nephi Anderson’s novels. As the current draft climbs to around 65 pages, I realize that trying to encapsulate Anderson’s contribution to Mormon letters in one chapter is a fool’s errand. … Continue reading →

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Mormon Literature and the Anxiety of “Passing”

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Scott Hales

In literature, a character’s ability to move unnoticed from one social group to another, often more privileged group is called “passing.” In Disney’s Mulan, for example, the title character “passes” for a man so that she can take her aging … Continue reading →

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Novelist Nephi; or Why We Still Need the “Author of ‘Added Upon’”

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Scott Hales

In less than a week I will be traveling to Salt Lake City to spend a week in the Church History Library with the Nephi Anderson papers. To prepare, I have been reading Anderson’s novels and short stories and making … Continue reading →

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