Abstract
In One of Ours ([1922] 1991), Willa Cather puts a distinctive spin on naturalist fiction by having geography function as a major component of her characters’ powerlessness and at the same time having maps function as a means of self-determination. Cather’s literary maps represent the way that growing U.S. engagement with the world in the early twentieth century enables the protagonist, Claude, to develop a sense of purpose and agency and to recuperate his tarnished masculinity. Ultimately, One of Ours is best seen as Cather’s alternative to the isolationist visual rhetoric of Mercator projection maps, which were extremely popular in the early twentieth-century United States, particularly in schools.
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