Author : Lucie Heck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (988 download)
Book Synopsis Czechs, the Heroes of the Wild West by : Lucie Heck
Download or read book Czechs, the Heroes of the Wild West written by Lucie Heck and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter 1 embraces the history of the settlement of the American West and defines the commonly used terms West, Frontier, and Wild West. At the same time, it explains the starting conditions of Czech immigrants, firstly within the European context, and secondly upon their arrival in the United States. Chapter 2 makes use of contemporary as well as period sources, and maps the arrival and life of the first Czech settlers in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. Chapter 3 considers the literary portrayal of the American West and its heroes and the works of Ole Edvart Rolvaag and Willa Cather. It also touches upon the phenomenon of the American Myth and its subjects. Chapter 4 brings attention to the gender imbalance when portraying the Wild West pioneers and American Myth heroes. At the same time it acknowledges the importance of Willa Cather's regional writing. Her realistic and detailed depiction of the roles and accomplishments of pioneer women presents viable information that can hardly be found or deduced from other sources. With the help of Cather's fiction, an alternative but accurate picture of the West and its inhabitants arises", from introduction.