Willa Cather's southern connections : new essays on Cather and the South

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Willa Cather's southern connections : new essays on Cather and the South

edited by Ann Romines

University Press of Virginia, 2000

  • : alk. paper
  • : pbk

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"This book began in 1997 with the seventh in the ongoing series of International Willa Cather Seminars, held for the first time in Cather's birthplace, Frederick County, Virginia ... a selection of the best of those papers has become this book"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-230) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction. Willa Cather's southern connections / Ann Romines
  • Willa Cather and the question of sympathy : an unofficial story / Judith Fetterley
  • "Dock burs in yo' pants" : reading Cather through Sapphira and the slave girl / Joseph R. Urgo
  • Political silence and hist'ry in Sapphira and the slave girl / Tomas Pollard
  • No place like home : reading Sapphira and the slave girl against the great Depression / Shelley Newman
  • Whites playing in the dark : southern conversation in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Roseanne V. Camacho
  • "A kind of family feeling about Nancy" : race and the hidden threat of incest in Sapphira and the slave girl / Mako Yoshikawa
  • "The dangerous journey" : Toni Morrison's reading of Sapphira and the slave girl / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
  • Race, labor, and domesticity in Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Gayle Wald
  • "The pull of race and blood and kindred" : Willa Cather's southern inheritance / Lisa Marcus
  • "A race without consonants" : My mortal enemy as reconstruction narrative / Robert K. Miller
  • Henry Colbert, gentleman : bound by the code / Mary R. Ryder
  • White dirt : the surreal racial landscapes of Willa Cather's south / Patricia Yaeger
  • The interlocking works of Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
  • "Aeneas at Washington" and The professor's house : Cather and the southern agrarians / Elsa Nettels
  • O'Connor's vision and Cather's fiction / John J. Murphy
  • Playing in the mother country : Cather, Morrison, and the return to Virginia / Janis P. Stout
  • Dressing for the part : [what's] the matter with clothes / Cynthia Griffin Wolff

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Willa Cather spent the first nine years of her life in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Grounded both in traditional literary criticisms and in cultural studies, these 16 essays explore the southern connection in Cather's writing life.

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