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American Dreams on the Frontiers Community in Cather's My Antonia

ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities · Vol. 7 No. 2 (2024) · pp. 348–355

DOI
10.34050/elsjish.v7i2.35083
ISSN
2621-0835, 2621-0843
Published
2024-06-16
Publisher
Hasanuddin University
Language
en
License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Abstract

Literature is a space to express sociological issues that are absorbed by the author in the society around him/her as a social phenomenon. The research in this article is a sociological literary research which aims to present the issue of American Dreams values in the novel My Antonia which are absorbed from Willa Cather's sociological experience in American frontier communities in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. American Dreams is a spirit that binds common ideals in order to unite the heterogeneity of the American people into a superior nation in various aspects of life. The issue of American Dreams in the novel My Antonia is analyzed using a scientific method called the Literary Sociology Approach. It emphasizes the author's imagination to literary works have genetics in human sociological life to document certain phenomena in certain societies. Researchers found 7 out of 10 American Dreams values in the spirit of frontier people in the western region of America as documented in the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather, namely Liberty, Democracy, Equality, Opportunity, Education, Progress, and Peace. Liberty is the freedom to determine one's own destiny, Democracy is the right to express one's desires as an independent person, Equality is equal treatment before the law, Opportunity is taking advantage of opportunities for the nation progress, Education is the spirit of seeking knowledge to create new discoveries, Progress is actualizing all potential to achieve prosperity, and Peace is the upholding of human rights to maintain the universal security of humanity.

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Abdul Hakim YassiAffiliation unknown2
Herawaty AbbasAffiliation unknown2
Muhammad DarwisAffiliation unknown2
Sitti NurnaluriAffiliation unknown1
Andi Basru WawoAffiliation unknown1
' NahliahAffiliation unknown1
Bachriani BachrianiAffiliation unknown1
Fitri ArniatiAffiliation unknown1
Nurhayati RahmanAffiliation unknown1
Desy Nur IndrasariAffiliation unknown1
Nasmilah NasmilahAffiliation unknown1
Sitti Nur Aisyah RitongaAffiliation unknown1
Burhanuddin ArafahAffiliation unknown1
Martin L. MandaAffiliation unknown1
Magfirah ThayyibAffiliation unknown1
HilmawatiAffiliation unknown1
Noer Jihad SalehAffiliation unknown1
ZulkhaeriyahAffiliation unknown1
Yusriadi YusriadiAffiliation unknown1
Lukman LukmanAffiliation unknown1
Aziz AzizAffiliation unknown1
Mardi Adi ArminAffiliation unknown1
M. DalyanAffiliation unknown1
KaharuddinAffiliation unknown1
Munira HasjimAffiliation unknown1
Muliyani MuliyaniUniversitas Muhammadiyah Kendari1
Rahmawati AziAffiliation unknown1
Bahmansyur BahmansyurAffiliation unknown1

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Metadata source: OAI-PMH (metadata jurnal) https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jish/oai, first harvested 3 Nov 2026, last seen 3 Nov 2026.
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