The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter

The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter

My thesis examines the discourse of Mexico in the works of three twentieth-century American authors-Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter-in order to analyze representations of Otherness in modernism and postmodernism. I seek to destabilize the dividing line between these periods...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ligairi, Rachel Mae
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2006
Subjects:
Mexico
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain
The Border Trilogy
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Katherine Anne Porter
Modernism
Postmodernism
Representation
Other
Xochimilco
María Concepción
Diego Rivera
Mural
Hacienda
English Language and Literature
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/935
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1934&context=etd

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