Mapping identity and N’deé ethnicity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Alvaro Enrigue’s Ahora me rindo y eso es todo

Both Cormac McCarthy´s Blood Meridian and Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender and That is All take place on the northern border of Mexico and the southern border of the United States, at two overlapping periods in the XIX century. This paper discusses the two perspectives emanating from the border conformation between the consolidating Nation States and how the genocide against de N’deé nation —specifically the Chiricahua group— has been added into the plot of the narratives analyzed to preserve cultural representations of the indigenous nation.