Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Hüseyin Altındiş

“…This article offers a post-southernist reading that challenges and problematizes the impacts of haunted past of the American South with implications of violence embodied by Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. In order to present a moral compass to the reader, the text presents good-evil dichotomy and the world of human through the uncanny and grotesque characters of “the kid” and “the judge.” …”
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