Situated within contemporary studies of Cormac McCarthy’s work, this article argues that existing discourse around Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the novel’s racial and colonial politics. Using racial capitalism as a framework, the article posits that McCarthy’s novel can be read not only as a story about American storytelling traditions, but how these traditions are themselves contingent on the reproduction and reification of white supremacy. This rereading of Blood Meridian additionally takes into account how the novel’s narrativization of white supremacy and settler colonialism manifests in both the novel’s form and content, arguing that the novel stages encounters with blackness and Indigeneity to mimic the mechanisms through which white supremacy was (violently) produced.

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科马克麦卡锡的种族小说：血子午线的殖民想象中的种族

本文位于对科马克麦卡锡作品的当代研究中，认为围绕科马克麦卡锡小说的现有话语血经缺乏对小说的种族和殖民政治的批判性参与。文章以种族资本主义为框架，认为麦卡锡的小说不仅可以作为故事来阅读关于美国讲故事的传统，但这些传统本身如何取决于白人至上主义的再现和具体化。这次重读血经此外还考虑了小说对白人至上主义和定居者殖民主义的叙事如何在小说的形式和内容中体现出来，认为小说的各个阶段都会遇到黑人和土著，以模仿白人至上主义（暴力地）产生的机制。