Narrating North American borderlands : Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch / / Evelyn P. Mayer |
Autore | Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Collana | Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik |
Soggetto topico |
Border crossing in literature - Canada
Border crossing in literature - United States Borderlands in literature - American fiction Borderlands in literature - Canadian fiction |
ISBN |
9783653044973
9783653983548 9783653983531 9783631653227 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910306631403321 |
Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> | ||
Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narrating North American Borderlands : Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher, and Jim Lynch / / Evelyn P. Mayer |
Autore | Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang GmbH, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Collana | Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Canadian fiction - History and criticism Borderlands in literature Border crossing in literature |
ISBN | 3-653-04497-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
2. 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" 2.3.3 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 3.2.3 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 4.1.3 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 4.3.3 Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line: En Route from Civil War to Civil Rights |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910418281303321 |
Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> | ||
Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang GmbH, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narrating North American borderlands : Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch / / Evelyn P. Mayer |
Autore | Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Collana | Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik |
Soggetto topico |
Border crossing in literature - Canada
Border crossing in literature - United States Borderlands in literature - American fiction Borderlands in literature - Canadian fiction |
ISBN | 3-653-98354-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765760203321 |
Mayer Evelyn P. <1980-> | ||
Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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