<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This essay aims to illustrate the way in which the American writer Cormac McCarthy constructs the role of the children in his novels <italic>Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West</italic> and <italic>The Road</italic> to challenge the discursive reality elaborated by the two adult protagonists. The premise of this endeavor is that both Judge Holden and the man offer a logocentric vision of the world, which the young characters resist by questioning its validity and exposing its limits. The Post-Structuralist criticism of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche represents the theoretical foundation of the text analysis proposed below.</p></abstract>

This essay aims to illustrate the way in which the American writer Cormac McCarthy constructs the role of the children in his novels Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West and The Road to challenge the discursive reality elaborated by the two adult protagonists. The premise of this endeavor is that both Judge Holden and the man offer a logocentric vision of the world, which the young characters resist by questioning its validity and exposing its limits. The Post-Structuralist criticism of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche represents the theoretical foundation of the text analysis proposed below.

“See the Child”: Representations of Childhood in <italic>Blood Meridian</italic> and <italic>The Road</italic> by Cormac McCarthy

East-West Cultural Passage

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“See the Child”: Representations of Childhood in  and  by Cormac McCarthy

This essay aims to illustrate the way in which the American writer Cormac McCarthy constructs the role of the children in his novels Blood Meridian, or the...

“See the Child”: Representations of Childhood in Blood Meridian and The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 29 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2019-0003

Keywords
childhood, Cormac McCarthy, Jacques Derrida, logocentrism, Post-Structuralism

© 2019 Mădălina Larisa Kimak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

“See the Child”: Representations of Childhood in Blood Meridian and The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 29 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2019-0003

Keywordschildhood, Cormac McCarthy, Jacques Derrida, logocentrism, Post-Structuralism

© 2019 Mădălina Larisa Kimak, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
childhood, Cormac McCarthy, Jacques Derrida, logocentrism, Post-Structuralism