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Jackson, Joshua Ryan.

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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy./
Author:	Jackson, Joshua Ryan.
Description:	96 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-06(E).
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1594990
ISBN:	9781321928457

Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.
Jackson, Joshua Ryan.

Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy. - 96 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas, 2015.

In this thesis, I read the novels of Cormac McCarthy as posthuman southern literature to explain why literature from the South after World War II could no longer convey a sense of place during postmodernity: that is, because its culture and economy were transitioning from predominantly humanistic thinking (i.e., believing that humans [and especially southern humans] are supreme beings) to predominantly posthumanistic thinking (i.e., believing that humans are not as supreme as they think they are). I argue that we can trace this ideological change over time via structural shifts in the South's architectural record, which I see in the ruins of McCarthy's novels. I conclude that applying posthuman theory to southern literature affords us an alternative (and non-supremacist, non-exceptionalist) way to read southern literature, as well as a way to understand the American South as a space that is constantly undergoing a broader, transideological movement away from humanism (read: human exceptionalism) and toward posthumanism (read: non-, anti-, or after human exceptionalism).

ISBN: 9781321928457Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.
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