71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
The National Willa Cather Center
413 N Webster St
Red Cloud, NE 68970
United States
Mark your calendars for the 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference!
Cather's writing, from My Ántonia to My Mortal Enemy and America 250 present opportunities to consider how we remember people—and nations.
My Mortal Enemy is told retrospectively and is filtered through the narrator’s memory of Myra. This emotional distance creates ambiguity. Just as Nellie Birdseye constructs an image of Myra, American culture constructs narratives about our heroes, founders, values, and ideals. This theme is relevant in the context of the semiquincentennial, while citizens of the U.S. are celebrating the nation's founding and examining our own history, stories, and national myths.
Additional details regarding invited speakers, programs, and performances are forthcoming.