American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1427 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Willa Cather and the Prairie
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The idea
Cather grew up in Nebraska among immigrant farming families, worked as a magazine editor, and wrote novels about people breaking prairie. The witness pairs her with Ellen Glasgow as a regional novelist who came to write women's lives as her confidence grew.
In practice
Nebraska, and the people who broke it.
Where people slip
Her subject is immigrants making a country.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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