Willa Cather: Queering America

by Marilee Lindemann

Book Overview

Although it has been proven posthumously by scholars that Willa Cather had lesbian relationships, she did not openly celebrate lesbian desire, and even today is sometimes described as homophobic and misogynistic. What, then, can a reassessment of this contentious first lady of American letters add to an understanding of the gay identities that have emerged in America over the past century? As Marilee Lindemann shows in this study of the novelist's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231113250
• ISBN13: 9780231113250
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher