Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As one of the representatives of Anthropocene fiction, Cormac McCarthy'sThe Road focuses on the protagonists' looking for hope for living.It can be inferred when analyzed with Tönnies' theory that a community is constructed within the relationship between father and son, together with other characters that are involved in the narration.Accordingly, the changing process of community is demonstrated in a progressive sequence of blood-geopolitics-spirit, revealing a sense of progression in an Anthropocene context.This paper analyzes and explores the process of evolution in three dimensions reflected in the novel: construction, crisis, and the reconstruction of community.It is considered that The Road conveys powerful calls of the yearn for the survival of the individual, which can be regarded as a reflection of the human condition in reality.Meanwhile, its distinct and full-scale evolution of community process expressed in the novel also presents a referentiality to the age of Anthropocene.
Authors: SUN Wei-lin, YU Qiong-yi, SUN Xi-jia
Institution: Jinling Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404937130