- Title
- Cormac McCarthy and the South Africans
- Creator
- Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458189
- Identifier
- vital:75722
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-184061729f
- Description
- In his well-known interview with Richard Woodward, Cormac McCarthy had occasion to remark: “The ugly fact is books are made out of books” (Woodward). Using his words as the point of departure for a detailed investigation of a multi-stranded case of intertextuality, I examine the influence of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian on three South African novels – Mike Nicol’s Horseman, Damon Galgut’s The Quarry and James Whyle’s The Book of War – in a way that I hope sheds light on the provenance, literariness and meaning of these texts.
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa
- Relation
- Cornwell, G., 2019. Cormac McCarthy and the South Africans. English in Africa, 46(2), pp.7-23
- Relation
- English in Africa volume 46 number 2 7 23 2019 0376-8902
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)
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Cornwell, David Gareth Napier (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of Literary Studies in English
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