![]() ![]() ![]() Here Cather explores the tension between whites, Mexicans, and Native Americans during this time period. + The focus on identity. The idea of one’s cultural, national, and personal identity seems to be an important common thread running between many of Cather’s works. In particular, I greatly enjoyed the following aspects: As he continues to serve his religious duties in the following decades we see him become more and more a part of the red hills surrounding what is to ultimately be his final resting place.įor me, the experience of reading Cather novel is like coming home after months of being away: it’s familiar, refreshing, comforting, and sweetly nostalgic. When Father Jean Marie Latour leaves Europe to become the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, he hardly expects to be swept up in the tangled knot of history between the whites, Mexicans, and Native Americans. Set in 1851 primarily in New Mexico, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a story of religion, a clash of cultures, the deceiving concept of the American identity, and living in the present by embracing the past. Over a full year after reading (and loving) My Ántonia, I have finally picked up another book by Willa Cather. ![]()
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