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Article: Willa Cather: Queering America.(Review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Marilee Lindemann. 1999. Willa Cather: Queering America.
New York: Columbia University Press.
$45.00 hc. $16.50 sc. xvi + 185 pp.
Recently compiling a large selection of essays on Willa Cather for a critical compendium, I was struck by the sheer range and variety of scholarship. All writers attract various, if not disparate, schools of interpretation, but Cather criticism is remarkably heterogeneous for a writer often seen as rather straightforward (the "pioneer novelist.") Even during her lifetime, she progressed from enjoying H. L. Mencken's warm review of The Song of the Lark (1915) to experiencing Granville Hicks's assault, 'The Case Against ...