Dakota (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kathleen Norris
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s to the present
- Setting: Lemmon, South Dakota
- Principal Characters: Kathleen Norris
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Nature, Marriage, Midwest, Spiritual life or spirituality, Small-town life, Weather
- Locales: South Dakota
Kathleen Norris’ transcendent nonfiction work opens with a quotation taken from the Spanish philosopher Jose’ Ortega y Gassett: “Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are.” In Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Norris does just that, describing for the reader her starkly beautiful Dakota plains home—the physical world—as a means of revealing her own inner landscape, the topography of her very soul. In clear, richly imagistic prose, Norris presents disparate bits of information—weather reports, geographic and historical facts, quotations,...
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