<p>Today we're joined by Sam Cummins of <em>Nymphet Alumni</em> to discuss the timeless American novelist Willa Cather. We talk about the needless politicization of Cather, why Nature is the ultimate identity cleansing force, and how frontier literature has evolved today.</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>Cather novels:</p><ul> <li><em>O, Pioneers</em></li> <li><em>One of Ours</em></li> <li><em>My Ántonia </em></li> <li><em>Death Comes for the Archbishop</em></li></ul><p><em></em><a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803210462/"><em>Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism</em></a>, Joan Acocella<em> </em>(2000)</p><p><a href="https://shop.willacather.org/kingdom-of-art.html"><em>The Kingdom of Art,</em></a><em> </em>early Cather essays collected by Bernice Slote (1966)</p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2713144">“Becoming Noncanonical: The Case Against Willa Cather,”</a> Sharon O’Brien (1988)</p><p>(Homework!: <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2024/02/getting-the-pump-jordan-castro/">“Getting the Pump,”</a> Jordan Castro in <em>Harper’s</em>)</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bloodgobbler/">Follow Sam</a><strong> </strong>and subscribe to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/nymphetalumni"><em>Nymphet Alumni!</em></a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
