1. Narrating North American Borderlands
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Mayer, Evelyn P.
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American ,Borderlands ,Grenzliteratur ,Grenzregionen ,historische Landschaft ,Howard ,Indigenität ,King ,Lynch ,Mayer ,Mosher ,Narrating ,North ,Thomas ,bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - ,bic Book Industry Communication::E English language teaching (ELT)::EB ELT background & reference material ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general ,bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCP Political geography ,bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography - Abstract
The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the USA and Canada. The novels address important border-oriented aspects such as indigeneity, the borderlands as historic territory and as utopian space, border crossing and transcendence, post-9/11 security issues, social interaction along the border, and gender specifics. The interpretation also examines the meaning of border imaginaries, border conceptualizations, and the theme of resistance and subversion.
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- 2014
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