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Between Candor and Concealment: Willa Cather and (Auto)Biography
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2009
- pp. 467-492
- 10.1353/bio.0.0114
- Article
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Willa Cather's noted convictions about privacy existed in tension with her more recently understood engagement in self-publicity. This tension is mirrored in her ambivalent thinking about the genres of biography and autobiography. The two genres became a deeply conflicted site for her, and one that often produced self-contradictions. Although Cather took steps to preserve her privacy late in life, she also manifested impulses toward self-writing.