“THE BOHEMIAN GIRL”: A SPACE FOR MEMORIES, THE LINK BETWEEN CHARACTER AND LANDSCAPE
Fátima Leonor Sopran | 57-68
The aim of this paper is to analyse the short story “The Bohemian Girl” (1992) by Willa Cather, starting from the idea that a space is constructed as place of belonging to the place establishing a link between space, landscape and being human. The author identifies space as the main feature capable of producing memories. From Tavares’ (2010) perspective “localities” are not only “spaces;” they are actually places where human beings share feelings and build their own space and community. The characters that make up the story walk forth from this perspective. In this story, the author presents the path of a family of immigrants who left Bohemia to come to Nebraska. The story is an example of the American writer’s interest for nature and the landscape, features her characters faced in the new world. The narrator’s text describes the Ericson family’s space poetically. She interprets, through their memories, the relationship of the characters with the land, denoting a strong sentiment for nature. We used the theories of Borges (2009), Alves (2006-2013), Besse (2006), among others to perform our analysis. These authors have contributed to the approaching space in the narrative and to the definition and significance of geographical space in the literary text.
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