Narrating North American Borderlands
Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Place of publication: Bern
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783653983531; 9783653983548; 9783631653227
Subjects: Political geography; Society & culture: general; Regional geography; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; ELT background & reference material
Description: 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.
Notes: English.