This study shows the process that Ántonia in My Ántonia has overcome the discrimination and traumas as a non-mainstream immigrant with her own life consciousness since she immigrated in the sterile Nebraska. Cather suggests that trying to live a life without killing oneself in the face of overwhelming odds be Ántonia’s own life vision. Ántonia respects all the lives around her and acts up to her strong belief while most regressive men including Jim are obsessive about a sense of loss and feeling of deficiency and make light of lives at large. Besides Ántonia, unlike them, surmounts lots of difficulties in the bleak land and becomes an Earth Mother achieving harmony with nature and acquiring sincere vitality on the land. The vitality that she supports is tolerant and communal so she ultimately makes Jim who still moves here and there on business in his country experience catharsis by threatening his equilibrium with a large family of children playing in the new world. Eventually as Ántonia has an inner vital power despite the vast challenges including giving birth to an illegitimate child, she changes Jim’s class consciousness through her own life consciousness and is contributing to the progress of life consciousness as a source of life supply.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]