Cather Studies, Volume 14 : Unsettling Cather.
The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Willa Cather's texts--both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship. Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first encount...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cather studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.24751882 |
Table of Contents:
- Keepsakes and treasures : investigating material culture in Sapphira and The slave girl / Sarah Clere
- Willa Cather's "Black liberation theology" in Sapphira and The slave girl / Barry Hudek
- Willa Cather's state of the union : Sapphira and The slave girl / Tracyann F. Williams
- Back to Virginia : "Weevily wheat," My Ántonia, and Sapphira and The slave girl / Steven B. Shively
- "Keen senses do not make a poet" : Cather's respectful rebellion against Whitman in O pioneers! / Hannah J.D. Wells
- Americans' coming of age : Willa Cather's female national hero in The song of the lark / Molly Metherd
- "As dangerous as high explosives," or, The sexual lives of hired girls : sex radicalism in My Ántonia / Geneva M. Gano
- Mapping and (re)mapping the Nebraska landscape in the works of Willa Cather and Francis La Flesche / Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz
- Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz : the muse and the story catcher in the capital city / Sallie Ketcham
- "Blue sky, blue eyes" : unsettling multilingualism in My Ántonia / Andrew Wu
- Regionalism demeuble : reflective nostalgia in Cather's Death comes for the archbishop / Jace Gatzemeyer
- The neuroscience of epiphany in Lucy Gayheart / Joshua Doležal
- Unsettling accompaniment : disability as critique of aesthetic power in Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart / Elizabeth Wells.