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Meat Fiction and Burning Western Light. The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher

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This article examines the way in which the South and the West intersect in Garth Ennnis and Steve Dillon's comic book series, Preacher (DC/Vertigo, 1995-2000). Preacher attempts to chart the ground for a renovated hybrid fiction which would blend the iconography of the South and the West in order to redefine both the limitations and the possibilities of southern identity, offering a version of the South that is self-consciously in dialogue with its popular representations and with the real histories those representations both reveal and conceal. From this dialogue comes the possibility for a new, more complex South, one that acknowledges its histories and representations without being constrained by familiar narratives.
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hal-01522476 , version 1 (15-05-2017)

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Nicolas Labarre. Meat Fiction and Burning Western Light. The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher: The South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher. Costello, Brannon and Wh, Qiana. Comics and the U.S. South, University Press of Mississippi, pp.242-268, 2012, 978-1-67103-018-5. ⟨hal-01522476⟩
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