Anno 24 N. 2 (2016): Fascicolo 2/2016
Articles

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

Pubblicato 12/10/2016

Parole chiave

  • American West,
  • the frontier,
  • the Pioneer Woman,
  • space,
  • place,
  • ecocriticism
  • ...Più
    Meno

Come citare

Nardi, P. A. (2016). “Direction? . There was no direction. The prairie stretched to the end of the world”. : American Land and the Pioneer Woman. Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(2), 43–52. Recuperato da https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/212

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.