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Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

Creator:

Johnson, Anthony

Abstract:

This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis