Narrating North American Borderlands

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.

subjects: Political geography,  Society & culture: general,  Regional geography,  Literary studies: from c 1900 -,  ELT background & reference material,  American fiction, history and criticism,  Canadian fiction, history and criticism,  Narration (rhetoric),  American fiction,  History and criticism,  Canadian fiction,  Borderlands in literature,  Border crossing in literature,  Narration (Rhetoric)