EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Willa Cather, Great Plains, Europe 1
Document Summary
Jasper johns, interpretive map of the usa 1961. Ways to approach these texts: region, genre, period. 1914-1945, start of wwi to pearl harbour and wwii. Sense of a child"s place to narrate, a new place. Traces: cemeteries, the circle where the ground was stomped down. Otto has far fetched interpretations of the land. Indigenous inscribed in the land (buffalo hides used as warmth, Black hawk town, hair dark like an indian on otto, reading. Jessie james is a quintessential frontier story. New country had to be cleared of the indigenous and the buffalo. This is very subtle, to what was the past. Political, imaginary concepts of maps of american specifically. Amazed by the land and sense of place. Book comes out in 1918, new to many people in that time. Nebraska corn huskers nickname for the football team there now. This land has to be quote on quote broken - terrible and interesting phrase.
