Parallel Encounters
Culture at the Canada-US Border
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781554589999 | |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Publication: | March 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781554589999 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Publication: | March 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Language: | English |
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Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor’s In a World Created by a Drunken God
Gillian Roberts
This essay compares King and Taylor’s Indigenous characters who assert Canadian identities strategically in order to combat American aggression. The provisional nature of these identity claims echoes the debates about nation-state citizenship for Indigenous peoples, making the border a site of struggle over the terms of, and claims to, belonging.
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Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor’s In a World Created by a Drunken God
Gillian Roberts
This essay compares King and Taylor’s Indigenous characters who assert Canadian identities strategically in order to combat American aggression. The provisional nature of these identity claims echoes the debates about nation-state citizenship for Indigenous peoples, making the border a site of struggle over the terms of, and claims to, belonging.
