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

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 thre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mayer, Evelyn P., 1980- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2014
Frankfurt am Main, Germany : 2014.
Colección:Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik ; Band 64.
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (229 p.)
ISBN:9783653044973