Delve Readers Seminars In-person Winter 2024
The Anti-Western: Cormac McCarthy, Carmen Boullosa and the Myth of the American West
The Wild West has always been a fiction. The heroic cowboy settling the frontier is a myth. The Western novels of the mid-20th century rewrote genocide & colonialism to justify the existence of the United States. As a needed response, The Anti-Western works to undermine this false history by complexifying & subverting the tropes of