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...

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Published in:	Western American Literature Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 111 - 133
Main Author:	Burch, Paul W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Western Literature Association Summer2025
Subjects:	Roads Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 Mass migrations Biopolitics (Philosophy) Novelists Settler colonialism Ecofeminism
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