{"title":"\"A Gratifying Divergence\": Immigrant Settlement and the National Narrative in Willa Cather's My Ántonia","authors":"Peter Kvidera","doi":"10.1353/lit.2024.a924343","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay examines Cather's 1923 essay \"Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle\" and her 1918 novel <i>My Ántonia</i> to analyze her representation of the immigrant figure that simultaneously defines the region (Nebraska) and enriches the story of America. The essay contextualizes Cather's writing within the statutes of nineteenth-century homesteading legislation, which allowed Nebraska to be settled and the nation to expand westward. It first considers opportunities and challenges afforded by homesteading, and then discusses Cather's use of immigrant settlement and the cycles of storytelling it produces to revise monolithic interpretations of the national narrative.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2024.a924343","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay examines Cather's 1923 essay "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle" and her 1918 novel My Ántonia to analyze her representation of the immigrant figure that simultaneously defines the region (Nebraska) and enriches the story of America. The essay contextualizes Cather's writing within the statutes of nineteenth-century homesteading legislation, which allowed Nebraska to be settled and the nation to expand westward. It first considers opportunities and challenges afforded by homesteading, and then discusses Cather's use of immigrant settlement and the cycles of storytelling it produces to revise monolithic interpretations of the national narrative.
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