“Becoming-Woman”: Masculine “Emergency” After 9/11 in Cormac McCarthy
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Abstract
Abstract: In Cormac McCarthy's most recent fiction, it's the crisis of masculinity in particular which must be signally re-imagined from becoming-woman as a kind of state of emergency (à la President George Bush) to its opposite as an emergent occasion for reassessment and reconfiguration in so-called post-feminist discourse (à la philosopher Gilles Deleuze). In the ever-expanding textual space that opens up, for instance, in No Country for Old Men (2005), between the hyperviolent and sociopathic behaviour of the ghastly Chigurh, and the more empathic and quiescent Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, readers of McCarthy's latest fiction experience a quite palpable shift away from the model of American masculinity instinct with cruelty and isolation famously remarked upon by D. H. Lawrence and Leslie Fiedler (among others), and so visibly sublimated in America's invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq immediately following the 2001 attacks.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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