In a land where there is constant migration, can there be a "homeland"? In the United States, migration is initially experienced as immigration, but the process never achieves closure. Migration continues as transience - restless, unsettled movement across social and economic classes, states, and national borders. In this nuanced study grounded in literature, history, and popular culture, Joseph Urgo demonstrates that American culture and our sense of national identity are permeated by unrelenting, incessant, and psychic mobility across spatial, historical, and imaginative planes of existence. There is no better example of a writer reflecting on this migratory consciousness than Willa Cather. At home in numerous locations - Nebraska, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Canada - Cather infused her novels with the cultural vitality that is a consequence of transience. By locating transience at the center of his conception of our national culture, Urgo redefines the mythos of American national identity and global empire. He concludes with an analysis of a potential "New World Order" in which migration replaces homeland as the foundation of world power.
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United States, Jim Burden, Lucy Gayheart, One of Ours, Willa Lather, Tom Outland, Harry Gordon, Claude Wheeler, Thea Kronberg, The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, Sweet Water, Native American, Niel Herbert, Kit Carson, New York, Pierre Charron, Ray Kennedy, Alexandra Bergson, Father Latour, Captain Forrester, Ivy Peters, Marian Forrester, Panther Canyon, Archbishop Latour New!
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- One of Ours (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather on 12 pages
- Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather on 11 pages
- My Antonia by Willa Cather on 11 pages
- Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather on 9 pages
- A Lost Lady (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather on 6 pages
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- Images Of America In Scandinavia.(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 28) by Poul Houe on page 203, and Back Matter
- Willa Cather and Others (Series Q) by Jonathan Goldberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture by William Conlogue in Back Matter
- Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World by Janis P. Stout in Front Matter
- Value & Vision In American Lit: Essays In Honor Of Ray Lewis White by Joseph Candido on page 130
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