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Settler colonial novels: Zachary R. Hernandez, ‘Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather’s Frontier Novels: Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor’s House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop’, in Jada Ach, Gary Reger (eds), Reading Aridity in Western American Literature, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

24Nov20

Excerpt: This chapter approaches Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark (1915), The Professor’s House (1925), and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) as case studies of settler colonial discourse.

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    • Visual sovereignty in and against settler colonialism: Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century, University of Nebraska Press, 2026
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