Border fictions : globalization, empire, and writing at the boundaries of the United States

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Label

Border fictions : globalization, empire, and writing at the boundaries of the United States

Title remainder

globalization, empire, and writing at the boundaries of the United States

Statement of responsibility

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Creator

• Sadowski-Smith, Claudia, 1968-

Subject

• American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism | Theory, etc
• American literature -- Mexican American authors | History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Boundaries in literature
• Canadian literature -- American influences
• Globalization in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature
• American literature -- Canadian influences

Language

eng

Summary

"Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies." "Border Fictions places into dialogue a variety of hemispheric perspectives from Chicana/o, Asian American, American Indian, Latin American, and Canadian studies. Each chapter examines fiction that ranges widely, from celebrated authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Alberto Rios to writers whose contributions to border literature have not yet been fully appreciated, including Karen Tei Yamashita, Thomas King, Janette Turner Hospital, and emerging Chicana/o writers of the U.S.-Mexico border." "Proposing a diverse and geographically expansive view of border and inter-American studies, Border Fictions links the work of these and numerous other authors to civil rights movements, environmental justice activism, struggles for land and border-crossing rights, as well as to anti-imperialist forms of nationalism in the United States' neighboring countries. The book forces us to take into account the ways in which shifts in the nature of global relations affect literary production, especially in its hemispheric manifestations."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• New World studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/358

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.M4

LC item number

S23 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New World studies