Mayer Narrating North American Borderlands

Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-3-653-98354-8
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 64, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik

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, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayer, Evelyn P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Canadian-U.S. Border Contexts and the Notion of the Beyond – Theoretical Frame: At the Interface of Literatures, Cultures, and Borders – Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water: Native De/Bordering – Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain: Borderlands as Utopia – Jim Lynch’s Border Songs: Power Structures, Permeability, and Mobility.

Über Autor(innen)

Evelyn P. Mayer holds a MA in Conference Interpreting for English and French and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Mainz. She was a visiting scholar and researcher at Carleton University (Canada) and at the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University (USA). She worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Mainz and Saarbrücken and currently teaches at Landshut.