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

Nicolas Labarre (1)

1 CLIMAS - Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones

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.

Mots clés: comics; south; western; gothic; violence; horror

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

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⟩