ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the shortcomings of traditional, colonial readings of the text and brings attention the ways in which McCarthy deftly uses many of the topics in playful interaction; despite the established critical tradition that places. Literary criticism and canonic transnationalisms can be victims of a form of predatory globalism that, while ostensibly comprehensive in scope, can carve down its objects of study into neoliberal artifacts that supposedly communicate national or transnational ethos. The chapter reexamines the cultural geography of the Grady-Cole homestead, the town of San Angelo, and the south/west Texas border area in order to offer a new perspective of John Grady's background and cultural identity. The Grady family may be read through Mexican-American canons of identity in the same way that they are read through the American myths. This family enjoys the social paradigms of a rich regional culture that in many ways belies the sociocultural ascriptions that are often put upon them in criticism.
