Narrating North American Borderlands
Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch
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Author(s)
Mayer, Evelyn P.
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
American; Borderlands; Grenzliteratur; Grenzregionen; historische Landschaft; Howard; Indigenität; King; Lynch; Mayer; Mosher; Narrating; North; ThomasISBN
9783653983548;9783631653227Publication date and place
Bern, 2014-11-25Series
Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik,Classification
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
ELT background & reference material
Society & culture: general
Political geography
Regional geography