RANAM, vol. XXXII, 1999, p. 93--104
Anne Foata
The Song of the Lark,
or Willa Cather's American history lesson
Abstract.
Willa Cather's 1915 Künstlerroman pictures the artistic development of a
modest immigrant girl from Colorado, her rise to the acme of an
international operatic career. The novel can also read as a paean to the
American people, native and foreign, who opened up the West and made
America. Running counter the aggressive ideology of the Frontier prevailing
after the Civil War, Cather pays homage to its two most despised victims,
the native Indians and the Hispanics, both determinant of the heroine's
artistic growth.
anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr
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