LEADER 05421nam 2200637 450 001 9910418281303321 005 20170822112835.0 010 $a3-653-04497-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000587209 035 $a(EBL)1888877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403792 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12617698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403792 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367942 035 $a(PQKB)10858423 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1888877 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000587209 100 $a20150112h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarrating North American Borderlands $eThomas King, Howard F. Mosher, and Jim Lynch /$fEvelyn P. Mayer 210 1$aFrankfurt am Main, Germany :$cPeter Lang GmbH,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 225 1 $aMainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik,$x1437-5281 ;$vBand 64 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-631-65322-0 311 $a1-322-49857-1 327 $aCover; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Introduction: Border Contexts and the Notion of the Beyond; 1.1 Poetic Border Approaches; 1.1.1 "At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border"; 1.1.2 "Mending Wall"; 1.1.3 Echoing the Poetic in Border Fiction: The "Un-National" and Walls; 1.2 Beyond, "Betwixt, and Between"; 1.2.1 Literary Analysis: The Confluence of Border and North American Studies; 1.2.2 Interdisciplinary Significance: Borders, Borderlands, and De/Bordering; 1.2.3 Procedure: Situating Canada-U.S. Border Fiction 327 $a2. Theoretical Frame: At the Interface of Literatures, Cultures, and Borders2.1 Poetic Prisms: The Cultural and Literary Turns in Border Studies; 2.1.1 Border(ing) Studies, Border Theory, and Border Poetics; 2.1.2 The Canada-U.S. Border/lands; 2.1.3 Border Conceptualizations: Parallax and Paradox; 2.2 Border Prisms: The Spatial Turn in North American Literatures and Cultures; 2.2.1 Transnational American Studies; 2.2.2 Transnational Canadian Studies; 2.2.3 Native/Indigenous Studies; 2.3 Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries; 2.3.1 North American Studies; 2.3.2 The Notion of "Worlding" 327 $a2.3.3 Comparative Border Studies2.3.4 Palimpsests: Remapping and Rewriting ; 3 Thomas King's ""Truth & Bright Water"" (1999): Native De/Bordering; 3.1 "Turtle Island": Border Crossings and Transgressions ; 3.1.1 Fluvial Boundary: The Stygian "Shield" ; 3.1.2 Unfinished Bridge: Ambiguous Ampersand ; 3.1.3 Cross-Border Communities: Truth & Bright Water; 3.1.4 Border Performance: State of the Art, Art of the State; 3.2 Diorama: Bordered Native-White Relations; 3.2.1 Pan-Tribalism: Haunting Past and "Happy Trails"; 3.2.2 Charades: Screening Stereotypes at the "Frontier" and Indian Days 327 $a3.2.3 Cousins: Transcending the Liminal Abyss3.2.4 Quilt: Palimpsest and Map; 3.3 Turning the Tide: Monroe Swimmer's "Survivance"; 3.3.1 Subversion: Monroe as Trickster; 3.3.2 Western Anthropology: Native Remains; 3.3.3 Colonial Legacy: Churches, Canvasses, and Carcasses ; 3.4 Summary ; 4. Howard Frank Mosher's ""On Kingdom Mountain"" (2007): Borderlands as Utopia; 4.1 Kingdom Rules: The Duchess and Subversion Strategies ; 4.1.1 "Lady Justice": Humor, Naming, Historical and Literary Allusions; 4.1.2 Religious Rewriting: Reclaiming by Renaming and Reappropriating 327 $a4.1.3 Dual Perspectives and "Second Sight": Ghosts, Mysteries, and Myths 4.2 "The Flying Lovebirds": The Clash and the Reversal of Stereotypes ; 4.2.1 The Duchess: Heiress of Kingdom Mountain and Memphremagog Abenaki; 4.2.2 The Aviator: Southern Mixed-Race "Stranger" "from Away"; 4.2.3 Community Borders: Representing Racial Relations in 1930 White Vermont ; 4.3 Blurred Color Lines: Kingdom Mountain as Utopian In-Between Space; 4.3.1 Contested Geopolitics: The Canada-U.S. Border and Kingdom Mountain; 4.3.2 Disconnected "Connector": Ecology vs. Economy, or Past vs. Present 327 $a4.3.3 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line: En Route from Civil War to Civil Rights 330 $aThe study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher's On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch's Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the USA and Canada. The novels address important border-oriented aspects such as indigeneity, the borderlands as historic territory and as utopian space, border crossing and transcendence, post-9/11 security issues 410 0$aMainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik ;$vBand 64. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBorderlands in literature 606 $aBorder crossing in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBorderlands in literature. 615 0$aBorder crossing in literature. 676 $a813.009 700 $aMayer$b Evelyn P.$f1980-$0921365 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910418281303321 996 $aNarrating North American borderlands$92066591 997 $aUNINA