“Direction? … There was no direction. The prairie stretched to the end of the world”. American Land and the Pioneer Woman

Black Soil, a novel written by an Irish pioneer woman, tells about her arrival and settlement in the Iowa prairies in the second half of the 19th century. The goal of my essay is to investigate the strategies the immigrant woman Nell Connor adopts to survive on the American frontier.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paola A. Nardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDUCatt 2016-12-01
Series:L'Analisi linguistica e letteraria
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Online Access:http://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nardi_Direction...There-was-no-direction.pdf
Description
Summary:Black Soil, a novel written by an Irish pioneer woman, tells about her arrival and settlement in the Iowa prairies in the second half of the 19th century. The goal of my essay is to investigate the strategies the immigrant woman Nell Connor adopts to survive on the American frontier.
ISSN:1122-1917
1827-7985