@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001655,
 author = {志水, 智子 and SHIMIZU, Satoko},
 journal = {Asphodel, Asphodel},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {application/pdf, AN00000289-20180726-29, In Willa Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), Sapphira isone of “pioneer women” who make their own ways of life as well astheir social positions by their vigorous efforts. Sapphira is a powerful leader of her family and manages household economy whileher husband, Henry, who is four years younger than her, is weak and passive. However, in this novel, Cather describes Sapphira’s declining years and reveals her physical and mental weakness.Sapphira has two faces, a beneficent family leader and a merciless slave owner. In this essay, I’d like to consider the meaning of pioneer women’s late years.
Sapphira is a type of Captain Forester in Cather’s A Lost Lady (1923), who is “strong in attack but weak in defense.” Although she wishes to control her family and slaves completely, they continue to revolt against her. That is, Sapphira’s sacred sphere must be changed. Her youngest daughter, Rachel, thinks the slave system to be a social crime and helps Nancy, her mother’s slave, in her escape. Moreover, the fact that Nancy is mixed-race reveals Sapphira’s failure in controlling her slave’s sexual intercourse. Sapphira can win neither at physical disease nor at age.
When Sapphira admits Rachel’s revolt against her, she accepts her defeat, age and destiny of pioneers. Although Rachel betrays Sapphira by letting Nancy run away, she respects her mother. By describing Sapphira’s late years as such, Cather may intend to insist that it is pioneer women’s duty to yield her position as a pioneer to her daughter and to admit the change of what she accomplished., 論文},
 pages = {29--46},
 title = {迷えるパイオニア・ウーマン: Sapphira and the Slave Girl におけるSapphira の二面性をめぐって},
 volume = {53},
 year = {2018},
 yomi = {サトコ, シミズ}
}