Deconstruction and Subversion: Postmodern Narrative of Blood Meridian

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.616How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Blood Meridian, postmodernism, deconstruction, war, religion, hero

Abstract

This thesis explores Cormac McCarthy’s classic postmodern novel Blood Meridian from three dimensions, that is, deconstruction of western expansion, subversion of religious myths, and anti-hero narrative. It unearths how the writer through interaction between history and text decomposes the grand narrative of western myths and Manifest Destiny established in American westward movement, and unmasks the imperialist truth of violence neglected or even intentionally concealed in the historical process. The paper provides a new observation perspective to comprehend the current acts that America is suppressing resistance from middle and lower classes domestically and carrying out hegemonism internationally.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shuquan Zhan
AU  - Jiemin Feng
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Deconstruction and Subversion: Postmodern Narrative of Blood Meridian
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 815
EP  - 818
SN  - 2352-5398
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