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North American Borderland Narratives: French, Spanish and Native Identities
| Author: | den Toonder , Jeanette Mattie Laura | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 204 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-1295-8 978-0-7734-1295-6 | |
| Price: | $179.95 | |
This work focuses on the ways in which border zones modify individual and national identity, by stressing changes resulting from the meeting of cultures.
From the Foreword:
“. . . the essays highlight various aspects of the paradoxical development of a stronger North American integration combined with a stronger militarization.”
-Prof. Marietta Messmer, University of Groningen
From the Foreword:
“. . . the essays highlight various aspects of the paradoxical development of a stronger North American integration combined with a stronger militarization.”
-Prof. Marietta Messmer, University of Groningen
Table of Contents
Marietta Messmer
Foreword
Jeanette den Toonder
Introduction
ESSAYS
Albena Bakratcheva
Metamorphoses of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of Americanization
Tity de Vries
Consolidation and Transformation of Alaska’s Last Frontier Identity
María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba
Rosina Conde and Her Real and Imagined Identities and Borders
Nadia Lie
Border Studies and Post-NAFTA Culture: Zorro as the “New Mestizo”
Hub Hermans
The Hero of the Mexican Corrido: Between Regionalism and Globalism
Lucie Guillemette
A Teenage Girl’s Discourse and the Quest for Identity: America as the Land of Possibility in Children’s Fiction in Québec
Winfried Siemerling
Harpers Ferry Revisited: Border Crossings and Identification in Lawrence Hill
Catherine Raffí-Béroud
Some Island Trips
Alejandro Ortiz Bullé Goyri
A Journey through Identity in “The man who turned into a buzzard” and the Mexican Indigenous Theatre of the 1990s
Yvette Jiménez de Báez
Migration and Identity Related to the Celebration of the Topada in The Sierra Gorda Mountains and Neighboring Areas in Mexico
> Index
Foreword
Jeanette den Toonder
Introduction
ESSAYS
Albena Bakratcheva
Metamorphoses of the Frontier: Realities and Haunting Ghosts of Americanization
Tity de Vries
Consolidation and Transformation of Alaska’s Last Frontier Identity
María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba
Rosina Conde and Her Real and Imagined Identities and Borders
Nadia Lie
Border Studies and Post-NAFTA Culture: Zorro as the “New Mestizo”
Hub Hermans
The Hero of the Mexican Corrido: Between Regionalism and Globalism
Lucie Guillemette
A Teenage Girl’s Discourse and the Quest for Identity: America as the Land of Possibility in Children’s Fiction in Québec
Winfried Siemerling
Harpers Ferry Revisited: Border Crossings and Identification in Lawrence Hill
Catherine Raffí-Béroud
Some Island Trips
Alejandro Ortiz Bullé Goyri
A Journey through Identity in “The man who turned into a buzzard” and the Mexican Indigenous Theatre of the 1990s
Yvette Jiménez de Báez
Migration and Identity Related to the Celebration of the Topada in The Sierra Gorda Mountains and Neighboring Areas in Mexico
> Index