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The Wild West, 9/11, and Mexicans in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 346-371
- Article
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Abstract
abstract:
Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (2005) depicts a 1980s Texas border town as an Anglo-American community attacked by Mexicans, whose presence McCarthy indicates mainly through drugs and violence. By analyzing McCarthy’s archival drafts and revisions, and contextualizing the representation of Mexicans in the post-9/11 southern border reality, I reveal how the novel, composed and published between 2003 and 2005, embodies a 9/11 subtext.
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