Narrating North American Borderlands
Combining historical, sociological and political as well as literary methods, the interdisciplinary study analyzes Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The novels narrate North American borderlands and gauge current developments at the Canada-U.S. border.
Combining historical, sociological and political as well as literary methods, the interdisciplinary study analyzes Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The novels narrate North American borderlands and gauge current developments at the Canada-U.S. border.
| Autor: | Mayer, Evelyn P. |
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| ISBN: | 9783631653227 |
| Auflage: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 227 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Veröffentlicht: | 15.12.2014 |
| Untertitel: | Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch |
| Schlagworte: | American Bardeleben Borderlands Evelyn Grenzliteratur Grenzregionen Howard Indigenität King historische Landschaft |
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.