Gender Relations in O’Pioneers! Novel by Willa Cather

A Genetic Structuralism Approach

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender relations; Genetic structuralism approach; Traditional American women

ABSTRACT

This paper is a study of gender in literature which elucidates traditional American women’s notion on gender relations which are absorbed from Victorian values. It is documented in one of the novels written by Willa Cather in 1913, namely O’Pioneers! The fictional characters who reflect the traditional American in gender relations between men and women are Mr. Bergson, Mrs. Bergson, Frank Shabata, and Marie Tovesky. The collected data were analysed with reference to the formulation genetic structuralism research by Endraswara (2013). It focused on the sociological analysis of literature which emphasizes the structural aspects of literature and the sociological history of society as literary imaginary genetics. The structural meaning of literary works is considered to have origins from the author’s experience and the historical reality of society. Traditional American women’s notion on gender relations based on Victorian values is ​​reflected in the novel O’Pioneers! Which include position, role, identity, and view. The notion of traditional American women as documented in the novel is the domestication of women in family life and maintaining harmony in the household with men is the idealization of gender relations in American society. This notion is a social fact among frontiers in the western region of America witnessed by Willa Cather as the author.

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AU  - Abbas Abbas
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AU  - Abidin Pammu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Gender Relations in O’Pioneers! Novel by Willa Cather
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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