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oapen-20.500.12657-272852021-11-10T08:06:25Z Narrating North American Borderlands Mayer, Evelyn P. American Borderlands Grenzliteratur Grenzregionen historische Landschaft Howard Indigenität King Lynch Mayer Mosher Narrating North Thomas bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::E English language teaching (ELT)::EB ELT background & reference material bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCP Political geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography 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. 2019-01-10 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2019-01-10 03:00:33 2020-04-01T11:48:00Z 2020-04-01T11:48:00Z 2014-11-25 book 1002727 OCN: 1083018925 9783653983548;9783631653227 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27285 eng Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik application/pdf n/a 1002727.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-04497-3 10.3726/978-3-653-04497-3 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653983548;9783631653227 64 227 Bern open access
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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.
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