Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)

Abstract

In Novel Subjects, Milne persuasively argues that imperfect ethnic subjects must develop strategies of artifice and collaboration and avoid the pigeonholing of multiculturalism to care for themselves. Novel Subjects is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of ethnic studies, and its primary contention—that self-care entails reciprocity between characters and between authors and readers—ought to provoke debate. Milne’s intersectional literary analysis models how literary criticism can tackle a diverse range of texts without flattening them the way the multicultural movement once threatened to do.