Willa Cather’s Nebraska: The Divide, Geologic Deep Time, and Indigenous Erasure in O, Pioneers!
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: by Jack Love Introduction Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! is a unique novel that employs environmental language prevalent in American Literature of the 19th and early 20th century. Though O Pioneers! is set on the Divide in Nebraskan farm country, there are moments in the text where Cather references past geological epochs when the entire lands of Nebraska were submerged beneath primordial oceans. In other instances, she compares the western landscape to prehistory when stones and soils were stil...
Source: Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
DOI: 10.58079/13zp2
Author: Jack Love
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6955692043
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