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