Narrating North American Borderlands Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch

• Autore principale: Mayer, Evelyn P. (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2014
• Serie: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
• Soggetti: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; ELT background & reference material; Society & culture: general; Political geography; Regional geography; American; Borderlands; Grenzliteratur; Grenzregionen; historische Landschaft; Howard; Indigenität; King; Lynch; Mayer; Mosher; Narrating; North; Thomas
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Riassunto

The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King's <I>Truth & Bright Water </I>(1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher's <I>On Kingdom Mountain </I>(2007), and American writer Jim Lynch's <I>Border Songs </I>(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.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (227 p.)

ISBN

978-3-653-04497-3
9783653983548;9783631653227

Accesso

Open Access