Willa Cather
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Lahir | Wilella Sibert Cather 7 Desember 1873 Gore, Virginia, A.S. |
Meninggal | 24 April 1947 Manhattan, New York, A.S. | (umur 73)
Makam | Jaffrey, New Hampshire, A.S. |
Pekerjaan | Novelis |
Periode | 1905–1947 |
Pasangan hidup | Edith Lewis (ca 1908–1947) |
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Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/;[1] nee Wilella Sibert Cather; 7 Desember 1873 – 24 April 1947)[A] adalah seorang penulis Amerika yang dikenal karena novel-novel kehidupannya di Great Plains, termasuk O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, dan My Ántonia. Pada tahun 1923, ia dianugerahi Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk One of Ours, sebuah novel yang dibuat selama Perang Dunia I.
Willa Cather dan keluarganya pindah dari Virginia ke Webster County, Nebraska ketika dia berusia sembilan tahun. Keluarga itu kemudian menetap di kota Red Cloud. Pada tahun 1890, pada usia enam belas tahun, Cather lulus dari Red Cloud High School.[17] Tak lama setelah lulus dari Universitas Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather pindah ke Pittsburgh selama sepuluh tahun, menghidupi dirinya sendiri sebagai editor majalah dan guru bahasa Inggris sekolah menengah. Pada usia 33 tahun, dia pindah ke New York City, rumah utamanya selama sisa hidupnya, meskipun dia juga sering bepergian dan menghabiskan banyak waktu di kediaman musim panasnya di Pulau Grand Manan, Brunswick Baru. Dia menghabiskan 39 tahun terakhir hidupnya dengan pasangan domestiknya, Edith Lewis, sebelum didiagnosis menderita kanker payudara dan meninggal karena pendarahan otak. Dia dimakamkan bersama Lewis di plot Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Cather mendapat pengakuan sebagai novelis dari perbatasan dan pengalaman perintis. Dia menulis tentang semangat para pemukim yang pindah ke negara bagian barat, banyak dari mereka adalah imigran Eropa pada abad kesembilan belas. Tema umum dalam karyanya termasuk nostalgia dan pengasingan. sense of place adalah elemen penting dalam fiksi Cather: lanskap fisik dan ruang domestik adalah untuk kehadiran dinamis Cather di mana karakternya berjuang dan menemukan komunitas.
Catatan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Sources are inconsistent on the date of Cather's birth, in large part because she fabricated—or as scholar Jean Schwind says, "chronically lied about"[2]—the date.[3][4][5] The 1873 date is confirmed by a birth certificate, an 1874 letter of her father's referring to her,[6] university records,[7] and Cather scholarship—both modern and historical.[8][9][10][11] At the direction of the staff of McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875.[12] After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year; this date has since been replicated in several scholarly sources.[13][14][15] That is the date carved into her gravestone at Jaffrey, New Hampshire.[16]
References
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ "willa-cather – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com". oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com.
- ^ Schwind, Jean (1985). "Latour's Schismatic Church: The Radical Meaning in the Pictorial Methods of Death Comes for the Archbishop". Studies in American Fiction. 13 (1): 71–88. doi:10.1353/saf.1985.0024.
- ^ Wilson, James Southall (1953). "Of Willa Cather". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 29 (3): 470–474. ISSN 0042-675X. JSTOR 26439850.
- ^ Bradford, Curtis (1955). "Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Stories". American Literature. 26 (4): 537–551. doi:10.2307/2921857. ISSN 0002-9831. JSTOR 2921857.
- ^ Morley, C. (September 1, 2009). "DAVID PORTER. On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather". The Review of English Studies. 60 (246): 674–676. doi:10.1093/res/hgp042.
- ^ Weddle, Mary Ray. "Mower's Tree | Willa Cather Archive". cather.unl.edu. Diakses tanggal January 22, 2021.
- ^ Shively, James R. (1948). "Willa Cather Juvenilia". Prairie Schooner. 22 (1): 97–111. ISSN 0032-6682. JSTOR 40623968.
- ^ Carpentier, Martha C. (2007). "The Deracinated Self: Immigrants, Orphans, and the "Migratory Consciousness" of Willa Cather and Susan Glaspell". Studies in American Fiction. 35 (2): 132. doi:10.1353/saf.2007.0001.
- ^ Jewell, Andrew (2007). ""Curious Survivals": The Letters of Willa Cather". New Letters. 74 (1): 154–175.
- ^ Bennett, Mildred R. (1959). "Willa Cather in Pittsburgh". Prairie Schooner. 33 (1): 64–76. ISSN 0032-6682. JSTOR 40626192.
- ^ Gorman, Michael (2017). "Rural Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Imperialism in Willa Cather's One of Ours" (PDF). The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 28: 61. Diakses tanggal February 1, 2021.
- ^ Baker, Bruce (1968). "Nebraska Regionalism in Selected Works of Willa Gather". Western American Literature. 3 (1): 19. doi:10.1353/wal.1968.0000.
- ^ French, Marilyn (1987). "Muzzled Women". College Literature. 14 (3): 219–229. ISSN 0093-3139. JSTOR 25111750.
- ^ Hinz, John P. (1949). "Willa Cather-Prairie Spring". Prairie Schooner. 23 (1): 82–88. ISSN 0032-6682. JSTOR 40624074.
- ^ Boynton, Percy H. (1924). "Willa Cather". The English Journal. 13 (6): 373–380. doi:10.2307/802876. ISSN 0013-8274. JSTOR 802876.
- ^ Whicher, George F. (1951). "Limited Investigations". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 27 (3): 457–460. ISSN 0042-675X. JSTOR 26439605.
- ^ "Willa Cather's Biography". Willa Cather Foundation. Willa Cather Foundation. Diakses tanggal May 14, 2021.
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