New Essays on My Antonia

by O'Brien, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780521459051
• ISBN10: 0521459052
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

My Ántonia is the Cather novel that is most often taught in high school and college courses, and the one that most readers try first when they approach Cather. It is at once her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can be enjoyed both for its simple, pure prose and for its literary depth. The essays in this volume place the novel in the context of American literary history, African-American music, and Southern writing, and offer illuminating ways of reading Cather's best-known work.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(30)
Sharon O'Brien
Time, Change, and the Burden of Revision in My Antonia	31	(26)
Miles Orvell
My Antonia and African American Art	57	(28)
Elizabeth Ammons
Displacing Dixie: The Southern Subtext in My Antonia	85	(26)
Anne Goodwyn Jones
``It Ain't My Prairie'': Gender, Power, and Narrative in My Antonia	111	(26)
Marilee Lindemann
Note on Contributors	137	(2)
Selected Bibliography	139