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地理学家爱德华·卡西(Edward S.Casey)曾说过:“没有地域就没有人类,是特定的地理空间塑造了我们的身体和灵魂。”威拉·凯瑟的创作无疑是对这种地域意识的最好诠释。这篇论文以威拉·凯瑟的四部“美国大西南作品”为研究对象,通过对具体篇章段落的分析解读,指出作家对大西南和这片土地上的印第安文化的理解、热爱并非一蹴而就,它其实是一个漫长曲折的过程。受制于作家本人的经历和当时的历史背景及政治气候,直到最后一部大西南小说《死神来迎大主教》,作家的地域意识才臻于成熟,大西南所蕴含的精神价值才成为作品中的“伟大现实”。
Geographer Edward S. Casey once said: “There is no place without human beings, and a certain geographical space shapes our bodies and souls.” “Willa Cather’s work is undoubtedly right The best interpretation of this geographical awareness. This dissertation takes four of Willa Cather’s ”Great Western Works of the United States“ as the research object. Through the analysis and interpretation of specific chapters, this essay points out the author’s understanding of the Southwestern and Indian culture on this land. In a single moment, it is actually a long and tortuous process. Subject to the author’s own experience and historical background and political climate at that time, until the last great southwest novel ”death to welcome the Archbishop“, the writer’s geographical consciousness matured, the spiritual value of the Great Southwest became the work ”Great reality".