LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:6 June 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Antonia Shimerda –
The True Pioneer with Reference to Willa Cather’s My Antonia

Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., PGDTS, Ph.D.


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Abstract

Around the globe, women undergo sufferings in one way or other. In fact, sufferings make women strong to face and tackle problems in life. While modern women approach difficulties in different ways, women of olden days struggled hard to get out of problems as they were in the chains of standards set by the society. On the other hand, the case of frontier women was even worse, as they had to face sufferings in their primitive living condition. Willa Cather, an early twentieth century novelist portrays the struggle of Antonia Shimerda – an immigrant and a pioneer through her novel “My Antonia”. This paper analyses the pioneer virtues of Antonia Shimerda – the heroine of the novel who emerges as a strong woman despite her difficulties.

Keywords: Immigrant, Pioneer, Frontier, Resilience, Self-reliance.

Introduction

Willa Cather, an early twentieth century novelist, adopts an interesting method to portray the sufferings of a frontier woman through the eyes of the male character, Jim Burden only to show how men expect women to remain within the standards set by them. On this approach, critic Jan Goggans comments that it is a “conservative social attempt to ‘tell the story’ of how women and minorities should behave in the new world” (157).

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Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., PGDTS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English (SG)
Government College of Technology
Coimbatore- 641013
Tamilnadu
India
drlathagct@gmail.com

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