Index
343 abject, 126 abjection, 8; characteristics, 126; formation of, 127–32; kid, 253–54; melancholia , 253–54; as primordial conflict, 253; sacred power of horror, 136 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 107, 121n. 6, 317, 339n. 4 African American lullaby, 147 African Americans, 154–56 afterlife, 175–76 agency, 2, 3, 108, 121n. 5 aggressivity, 250, 252 Agrarian tradition, 51–52, 54–55 agriculture, 51, 52, 61, 54–55, 62–65, 71n. 11 Alejandra, 161 Alfonsa, 148–49, 272–73, 319 allegoresis: baroque, 261; concept of, 241, 243 allegory: child imagery, 248–49; defined, 241, 259; facticity of death, 243; functions, 243; melancholia, 258–60 All the Pretty Horses, God’s role, 217; historical repetition, 324; language, 271–72; Mexican representations, 141–50; monumental time, 275; novelistic world, 40–41; romance, 315; romantic ideals, 145–47, 149, 150n. 5, 165–66; significance, 18; women, 126; women characters, 138 American nation, 114–20 amorality, 212, 270 Anglo versus Mexican minds, 273–74, 282 anthropocentrism, 28–29, 32, 37, 83, 217 antimyth, 89, 93, 95 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 156, 164 apocalyptic paradigm, 300 Appalachian fiction, 47–48 Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force, 62, 71n. 6 Arcadia, 84, 248, 249, 264n. 14 argonauts, 111–12 asocial point of view, 178 aspen leaf imagery, 256–57 atomic. See nuclear issues atravesados (border crossers), 10, 154, 157, 160, 164, 167 autonomy, 331 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 38–39, 44n. 16, 122n. 11; carnival, 279 Ballard, Lester, 171–92, 194n. 4, 195n. 10, 196n. 24 barbed wire fence, 98 baroque: allegoresis, 261; defined, 241; vision, 255–56 The Bear (Faulkner), 315–16, 318, 320 bear themes, 89, 91–92, 109, 111; death as symbol, 208–9 beautiful versus sublime, 45n. 21 beauty, 177, 180, 181, 188, 195n. 16 benign violence, 200 Beowulf: described and analyzed, 200–201; Grendel’s rival double, 205; martial code, 203–4, 206; relationship to Blood Meridian, 199 Berry, Wendell, 51–52, 58, 60 Bible, 96, 239, 244, 283 Bierce, Ambrose, 143 biocentric view of nature, 221 Birth of Iron myth, 189–90 blacksmith, heedless, 189–90 blind man, 218, 279, 282 blood: as metaphor, 267–68; Mexicanness, 160; milk and, 133–35, 138–39n. 8 Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West: aesthetic function, 261; agency, 2; conflict of doubles, 205; epic resonance, 38; female characters, 125; gender, 7; lack of human implication, 33; language, 270–71; martial code, 11; martial interregnum, 204; melancholy subtext, I N D E X 344 : Index 12; natural world, 30, 32–33; nature vis-à-vis human, 75; noble bond, 202; oppositions describing, 18–19; origins, 20–21; as parody, 44n. 15; performative theory of the self, 112; prey sacrifice, 78; “remains,” 44n. 18; significance, 18; title origins, 232–33 bloodshed, McCarthy on, 104, 163 Boehme, Jacob, 216, 222–24, 227, 232 borderlands, 114–17, 119 Borderlands/La Frontera, 156 borders, 154, 156–57; as contested sites, 164 Border Trilogy: characters, 313; commercial aspects, 322; dream tale, 337; fate, 3; Infernal Paradise tradition , 141–50; interpreting, 313–14, 337–38; link among narratives, 339n. 2; oral discourse, 12–13; origins, 318; postmodern version of revisionism, 319–20; repetition and serialization, 322–33; repetition-compulsions, 197n. 27; themes, 270; tragic narrative ground, 319; violence on borders, 163–64 boundaries, God, 225 Brown, Irving, 174 buffalo, slaughter of, 90, 209 Calderón, Héctor, 156–57 cane, 306–7 cannibalism, 85–87, 100n. 4, 207 capitalism, 209 carnival theme, 112–13 catharsis, 136 caves: cave as metaphor, 191; cave parable, 176, 191; Child of God, 191; of forgetfulness, 175; life of the cave, 183; research on, 172, 193n. 1 Ceremony (1977), 235n. 3, 235n. 5 character, 25–28; Border Trilogy, 313; female, 125–27; individual or collective , 113; lack of development, 81; Mexican, 145; true and false identities, 107–8 child: allegory in Blood Meridian, 248–49; melancholy side, 262; monstrous infant, 249–56; Outer Dark, 135 child motif, 242, 245 Child of God: Ballard as protagonist, 171; Birth of Iron myth, 189–90; farmer violence, 55; human figures, 44n. 17; as pastoral, 177; Platonic myth, 10–11; strata of landscape, 61–69; time markers, 193n. 2 chivalric code of the West, 8, 146 Christian sensibility, 11, 215; St. Francis of Assisi, 230; kittens’ eyes, 298; mystical writing, 215–16; Sermon on the Mount evoked, 233 churches, 94, 96–97 Cities of the Plain: agency, 3; capacity to love, 234; closing words, 1, 4; Cole’s death, 321; cowboys, 325; dead frontier, 333; doubles concept, 329–30; elegiac...
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