《啊,拓荒者!》被公认为是二十世纪美国女作家薇拉.凯瑟的第一本边疆小说,也正是这本小说奠定了她在美国文学史上的地位。在这部小说中,作者表达了她对土地的深厚感情,以及她对人和土地关系的思索。薇拉.凯瑟通过一个看似疯癫的人物——艾弗表达了自己的生态主义思想。 “Ah, Pioneers!” Is widely recognized as the first frontier novel by American writer Willa Cather in the twentieth century. It is also the novel that laid her position in the history of American literature. In this novel, the author expresses her deep feelings for the land and her thoughts on the relationship between man and land. Vera Caesar expressed her own ecologism through a seemingly insane character.