My Antonia PDF Willa Cather

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During Jim Burden’s culminating visit to the Cuzak homestead, Ántonia’s children boast that “Americans don’t have” delicacies like their spiced plums and kolaches (Czech pastries), and one of her boys plays “Bohemian airs” on the violin that Ántonia’s father had brought with him when he emigrated to Nebraska.

What is most interesting about this portrait of an unassimilated immigrant household is Cather’s somewhat paradoxical suggestion that these kinds of families will generate an American identity still in the process of being born. In fact, Cather raises this idea that the United States remains an unformed nation in the very first chapter of the novel. Recalling his first sight of the uncultivated Nebraska landscape, Jim feels that it is “not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made” (p. 11). At the end of the novel, when Jim calls his bel

• Book Name: My Antonia pdf
• Author Name Willa Cather
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2008

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