Blood Meridian', or the evening redness in the east
Itinerant Degenerates Bleeding Westwards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4862714 |
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| Authors | Richard Godden (University of Sussex, corresponding author), Colin Richmond (Keele University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-460 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477570004048079 |
| OpenAlex | W2044263341 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Blood Meridian (1985), written a decade after US withdrawal from Vietnam and even as Reaganite policies actively destabilized Nicaragua and sustained the despicable in El Salvador, centres nominally on Sonora, Mexico. However, we argue that, from the perspective of the post-1975 USA, Sonora specifically and systematically resembles South Vietnam, with the Treaty of Guadalupe (1848) resembling the Geneva Agreements of 1954. Central to McCarthy's demystification of the chronological and global reach of US imperialism is the figure of the Judge, readable as a personification of the US permanent arms economy and a tour guide to genocide. In a 20th century characterized by mass murder and enforced migration of peoples, it is appropriate that a judge, a representative of the state, should embody what has constituted the activity of modern governments
Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Evening · Genocide · Geography · Middle East · Peace treaty · Political science · Treaty · American Political and Social Dynamics · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Modern American Literature Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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