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dc.contributor.advisorListe Noya, José
dc.contributor.authorAlonso Pérez, Santiago
dc.contributor.otherUniversidade da Coruña. Facultade de Filoloxíaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T10:28:49Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T10:28:49Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2183/24682
dc.description.abstract[Abstract] In this paper, we develop a close-reading of McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses from a transnational point of view. Prompted by the increasing fame of the author and the numerous studies about the text, which acknowledge the existence of several myths such as the frontier or the notion of American exceptionalism while avoiding the one of globalization from an American point of view, we decided to focus our attention on the transnational analysis of the journey and the language present in the novel. The reason for this is that these two elements are among the most important stylistic and thematic strategies used by the author to provide the reader with the opportunity of taking a closer look at the mythological processes taking place in Cole’s world and psyche as well as their deconstruction. On the one hand, the journey, from this perspective, depicts a clear opposition between the United States (as the global) and Mexico (as the other) that will fade progressively as the plot develops, as John Grady Cole becomes more and more conscious of the falsity of this image of Mexico, which enables him to build “transnational bridges” between both nations. The Spanish language, on the other hand, enables us to perceive a sort of linguistic transnationalism because it is made part of the United States’ identity through its presence in the graveyard and through the crucial role of the abuela. Moreover, as neither Spanish, nor English, can convey every reality, language helps us to understand how this linguistic transnationalism functions in a symbiotic way. Nevertheless, in order to be able to develop this reading, we first summarize McCarthy’s professional trajectory as a writer and we link its topics and main characteristics with those present in All the Pretty Horses. Moreover, we explain and apply Slotkin’s definition of “myth” to McCarthy’s novel and, from this basis, we explore the concepts of “globalization”, “otherness” and “transnationalism” in the context of the novel. As a result, this reading of the novel allows us to present McCarthy’s discourse from a new perspective that will not only restate that the: “frontier was the imaginary boundary (for whites) that demarcated the turning of space to place and McCarthy’s texts explore the power of this thought in American society, a power which extends far beyond the material demise of the frontier” (Estes 43), but that will also enable us to redefine the relationship between Mexico and the United States in transnational terms, thus rewriting the characterization of both nations.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
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dc.subjectMcCarthy, Cormaces_ES
dc.subjectTransnational analysises_ES
dc.subjectAmerican literaturees_ES
dc.subjectAmerican societyes_ES
dc.titleAll the Pretty Horses: a Transnational Readinges_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesises_ES
dc.rights.accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.description.traballosTraballo fin de grao (UDC.FIL). Inglés: estudios lingüísticos y literarios. Curso 2018/2019es_ES


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