Bad Roads and Burial Grounds: Feral Transport Media and Narrative Erasure in Willa Cather's Migrant Tales.
The article focuses on the concept of "bad roads" in Willa Cather's works, particularly in her novel *O Pioneers!*, and how these roads symbolize nonconformity and the complexities of transport media in the context of American settler narratives. The "bad road," associated with characters like Crazy...
| Publicado en: | Western American Literature Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 111 - 133 |
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