Willa Cather's Notion on Traditional American Women in the Novel My Antonia: An Approach of Genetic Structuralism

This article discusses the traditional American woman initiated by Willa Cather in novel My Antonia. It was written 1913 which describes social conditions of frontiers farming areas West Nebraska, Hastings, Black Hawk, Lincoln, and others. Frontiers generally still maintain values survival their families, especially Nebraska. The literary study method used this is Genetic Structuralism Approach emphasizes sociological analysis literature based on structural meaning genetics. approach very appropriate to be find universal documented works are termed vision du monde or world views. research found Cather's imaginative ideas about women Antonia includes aspects performance, position, role, identity, perspective. Traditional women's performances have same appearance clothing as general America. position a wife her husband mother children. role take care household continuity family life. identity housewife. perspective devote all souls bodies for happiness, domestic harmony, maintaining good relations with neighbors. Then notion full domestication partial domestication.