%0 Journal Article
%T Borderlands Identities and Borderlands Ideologies in Willa Cather¡¯s Death Comes for the Archbishop
%A Astrid Haas
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2012
%I American Studies Journal
%X The New Mexican territory, an area added to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and the Gadsden Purchase (1853) following the U.S.-Mexico War, was largely Mexican and Amerindian in population, customs, and beliefs in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, it witnessed a growing influx of Anglo U.S.-American settlers and their culture, especially after the American Civil War of 1861¨C1865. Narrating the story of the first Catholic archbishop of New Mexico and his vicar general, Willa Cather¡¯s historical novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) provides a complex portrayal of the Mexican, Amerindian, Anglo-American, and European cultures in the U.S.-Mexico border region from the 1850s through the 1880s.
%K United States
%K America
%K Mexico
%K New Mexico
%K border
%K borderlands
%K culture
%K literature
%K Willa Carther
%U http://asjournal.org/archive/57/199.html