Narrating North American Borderlands Thomas King, Howard F. Mosher and Jim Lynch

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn P. Mayer
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9783631653227
• ISBN: 978-3-631-65322-7
• Pages: 227
• Dimensions (packing): 14.8 x 2 x 21 cm
• Weight (packing): 410 g
• Series: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik > .64; Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik > 64