The Dialectics of Mobility: Capitalism and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

In the post-apocalyptic setting of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006), a father and his son “push down the road a battered shopping cart, containing their bare provisions, on a thoroughly consumed earth” (Seltzer 189). Despite the fact that the novel seems to be situated in an indistinct no-man...

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Main Author: Simon Schleusener
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2017-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12296