![]() To begin, the novel is written by a woman but told through the eyes of a male narrator. ![]() For this reason, the novel is sometimes considered a modernist work (see "Genre" for more). First, its narrative structure is mainly built from episodes and anecdotes rather than a continuous storyline – Cather thinks nothing of jumping twenty years ahead in between chapters. The novel forms a sort of "trilogy" with two other prairie novels by Cather, O Pioneers! (1913) and The Song of the Lark (1915).įor its time and context, My Ántonia pushed the boundaries of traditional literature. Cather, like her character Jim, moved to Nebraska when she was ten years old, and she bases many of the events, characters, and settings of the novel on her own childhood experiences. ![]() The novel takes the form of a fictional memoir written by Jim Burden about an immigrant girl named Ántonia with whom he grew up in the American West. My Ántonia, published in 1918, is arguably the most famous work of American novelist Willa Cather. ![]()
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