L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 24 No. 2 (2016): Issue 2/2016
Articles

“Direction? ... There was no direction. The prairie stretched to the end of the world”. : American Land and the Pioneer Woman

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  • Paola A. Nardi

Published 12/10/2016

Keywords

  • American West,
  • the frontier,
  • the Pioneer Woman,
  • space,
  • place,
  • ecocriticism
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Nardi, P. A. (2016). “Direction? . There was no direction. The prairie stretched to the end of the world”. : American Land and the Pioneer Woman. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(2), 43–52. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/212
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Abstract

Black Soil, a novel written by an Irish pioneer woman, tells about her arrival and settlement in the Iowa prairies in the second half of the 19th century. The goal of my essay is to investigate the strategies the immigrant woman Nell Connor adopts to survive on the American frontier.

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