Plains Song

ISBN: 9780803282674 出版年：2000 页码：422 Morris, Wright Bison Books

"Man's culture was a hoax. Was there a of the novelist, woman who didn't feel it? Perhaps a decade, Morris's female characters are often types no more, was available to women to save the wizened great-aunt or grandmother, the themselves, as well as the planet. Women's domineering matriarch, the urban huntress, previous triumphs had been by default. Men the repressed ice woman, the haunted siren, had simply walked away from the scene of the Those among them who triumph usually do so struggle, leaving them with the children, the by default. The pioneering men of previous chores, the culture, and a high incidence of generations tamed the wilderness, then, madness." The lines are from Wright Morris's through weariness or boredom, left women the Plains Song: for Female Voices; they represent a less audacious task of maintaining the society "brief resume" of the "forthcoming lecture" by and culture, such as they were, that the men Alexandra Selkirk, a feminist who has just had wrought. Morris's indictment of the arrived in Grand Island, Nebraska, to rally the patriarch in terms of his default can be daughters of the Plains to their incipient documented over a span of years. In 1957, liberation.1 Although the speech is assigned to Morris stated that man has defaulted in a fictional leader of the women's movement, running the world and that woman takes her the sentiments about the default of man and unconscious revenge by playing the role of the corresponding ascent of woman are those tyrannical matriarch.2 In his 1967 essay, "Chil dren Are the Best People," he claimed that default has undermined the structure of the , , ., . . . , . _ , American family: "When the American male Lintk M. Lewis is assistant professor of English at ^ w ^ h his ^ Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. She has ^ head ^ thg he established the published articles in journals including Arizona ^ q{ ^ in ^ mafters of English Bulletin and Nebraska Humanist. guidimce and authority», ln a 1975 interview about the novel One Day, Morris said his character Evelina Cartwright is woman in the [GPQ 8 (Winter 1988): 29-37] mythic sense of the word. "She embodies a