Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

"Acocella's book is brief--ninety-four pages of text--and it shies with exemplary good sense....[It] traces, with patience, a sense of shock, and humor, a tale of farcical misrepresentation, of the fabrication, from biographical speculation, and feminist and 'queer' and multicultural theory, of a kind of gesticulating scarecrow, a Woman Writer....Acocella's case is well argued and illustrated...."Acocella, Joan is the author of 'Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375712951 and ISBN 037571295X.