Bipolar Vision In Willa Cather's My Ántonia

Kleiman, Ed

English Studies 2001 82 (2)146-153
(ReLIS:jul:juljig:y:2001:v:82:i:2:p:146-153)

Abstract:

Having left the culturally established society of Virginia for the frontier landscape of Nebraska, Jim Burden journeys in a horse drawn wagon through an embryonic darkness towards his grandparents’ home and the new life for himself that is about to be born.1 Along the way, he is struck by the emptiness of his surroundings: There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Keywords: Estados Unidos ; Historia
Pages: 146-153
Volume: 82
Year: 2001
Issue: 2

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