ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests the narrator's exposure to a traumatic event provides Remainder with the narrative material necessary for the exploration of the vulnerability and monstrosity of a wounded character representative of our traumatic age. Since its publication in 2005, McCarthy's Remainder has received considerable critical attention from various perspectives ranging from trauma theory to poststructuralism. The chapter explains the way in which the novel constructs physical and psychological vulnerability and monstrosity by addressing the issues of slipstream and traumatic realism. It explores vulnerability caused by trauma in Remainder. The chapter addresses such issues as monstrosity and the impossibility of a sovereign self, which are exemplified in McCarthy's Remainder as the evocation of the predicament of the traumatised subject in relation to slipstream. The chapter also explores how slipstream writing is employed in the novel in order to represent vulnerability.
