A Study Of Willa Cather's Frontier Trilogy From Ecological Feminism

Willa Cather is a famous American woman writer in the first half of the 20 th century.Cather's creation period is the transition period of the United States from traditional society to industrial society,the rapid development of science and technology and modern industrial civilization,material wealth rapid growth pole of the earth changed people's life space and living circumstances.However,with the growing of human control and the transformation of the nature,human,from the harmonious relationship between man and nature began to gradually towards fragmentation and conflict,which makes human beings have to face the consequences of ecological environment deterioration.Some scholars in the field of literary studies have gradually realized that the spiritual world of human desolation,greedy characteristics to the destruction of the ecological society,they began to reflect on,and through their literary texts to construct,so as to review and evaluate of traditional literature.This paper first briefly combed the domestic and foreign existing comments of Cather's works,affirmed Cather is the Nebraska prairie singer,her works really realize the practice of ecological feminism.Combined with frontier trilogy,the three works,to argue from three aspects:The second part is of the value care for ecological feminism motif.Cather from both nature and women motif,profoundly criticized the "male centralism" view of the world,publicly make the acura on women and nature.The third part is the return of the spiritual home.Industrialization and technological revolution tide,destroyed the traditional human survival homes.This paper will from the three main female images "women ecological self" breakthrough analysis to affirm Cather to the rebuilding and reconstruction of the spiritual home of the past.The fourth part is the ecological feminist aesthetic value rational return.From the principle of the integrity and the ecological feminist aesthetic value,the ecological aesthetic value and aesthetic connotation in text mining,arousing the whole society on the ecological problems and the emphasis on women's issues and concerns.Cather with feminine point of view,with exquisite and elegant style of writing,full of enthusiasm acura early women pioneers in the western United States,and their stubborn tenacity creative spirit and strong fortitude character,shaping for the portraits of women's collective of enduring of the early west frontier pioneers.Cather's works are completed under the background of intersection collision in frontier culture and industrial culture.In Cather's works,the past harmonious stability and better homes,traditional moral quality and spiritual value pursuit has been the value of literary creation theme of Cather's.