ABSTRACT
This paper looks at the perverted forms of appropriating, possessing, and hoarding foregrounded in Child of God and argues that McCarthy’s work raises questions about the modern bourgeois constructions of the subject founded upon property. Focusing on the relationship between the emergence of Lester Ballard’s necrophilia and the forfeiture of his property, I claim that McCarthy’s portrayal of deviancy challenges the subject’s absolute right to possess epitomized in Hegelian philosophy.
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Ferma Lekesizalın
Ferma Lekesizalın holds a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi. She currently teaches at Istanbul Aydin University in Turkey. She previously published articles based on readings of literature through Jacques Lacan’s and Slavoj Zizek’s theories of subjectivity. Her research interests include investigations of liminal and ambivalent subject-positions in postcolonial and contemporary American fiction.