It is with this type of reading perhaps that a lesbian narrative space is created by Cather in "My Antonia." ... Shimerda, who could say so little, yet managed to say so much when he exclaimed, "My Antonia!." ... Jim's character perhaps opens up a territory of a possible lesbian narrative space in "My Antonia," because of his feminine nature and idealistic view of Antonia. ... Widow Steavens affirms this opposition in her account of Antonia's unfortunate circumstances, "My Antonia, that had so much good in her, had come home disgraced. ... Antonia therefore, is given a higher...

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