拓荒者的身分重建：家與小鎮在羅蘭．英格斯．懷德的《小木屋系列》與薇拉．凱瑟的《我的安東妮亞》的轉變

Abstract

本論文研究羅蘭．英格斯．懷德的《小木屋系列》與薇拉．凱瑟的 《我的安東妮亞》兩部作品中空間、地方與拓荒者在大草原上的關係。美國西部拓荒邊境為擁有不同種族與文化背景之拓荒者共同生活並共享多元文化經驗之地。在兩位作者的小說中，第二代拓荒女性能夠在蓬勃發展的小鎮重建身分，並體現了西部大草原多元、流動的可能性。

This thesis will focus on the relationship between space, place and the pioneers on the Great Plains in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and Willa Cather’s My Ántonia. The frontier in the American West is where pioneers with different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds coexist and share multicultural experiences. The second-generation pioneer women in the two authors’ works are able to recreate new identities in the thriving little towns, which embodies the possibilities of plurality and fluidity of the Great Plains.