Willa Cather and the American Southwest
The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather's aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. This book focuses a sharp eye on how that landscape served Cather creatively and the ways it shaped her research and productivity.
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2002
History
vi, 172 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803245570, 0803245572
48098530
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo - Introduction: Literate Tourism and Cather's Southwest 1. On Mesa Verde 1 John N. Swift - Unwrapping the Mummy: Cather's Mother Eve and the Business of Desire 2 Ann Fisher-Wirth - Anasazi Cannibalism: Eating Eden 3 Matthias Schubnell - From Mesa Verde to Germany: The Appropriation of Indian Artifacts as Part of Willa Cather's Cultural Critique in The Professor's House 4 Marilee Lindemann - Fear of a Queer Mesa?: Faith, Friendship, and National Sexuality in "Tom Outland's Story" 5 John J. Murphy - Holy Cities, Poor Savages, and the Science Culture: Positioning The Professor's House 2. The Professor's House 6 Richard H. Millington - The Experience of Meaning in The Professor's House 7 Merrill Maguire Skaggs - Cather and the Father of History 8 Tom Quirk - Twain and Cather, Once Again 3. Death Comes for the Archbishop 9 Mary Chinery - Willa Cather and the Santos Tradition in Death Comes for the Archbishop 10 Christopher Schedler - Writing Culture: Willa Cather's Southwest 11 Manuel Broncano - Landscapes of the Magical: Cather's and Anaya's Explorations of the Southwest 12 Joseph R. Urgo - Multiculturalism as Nostalgia in Cather, Faulkner, and U.S. Culture David Harrell Afterword: From The Professor's House to the Roundhouse--and Beyond Works Cited; Contributors; Index