Beschreibung:
Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.
Introduction1. Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts2. Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story3. Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives4. On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works5. Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism6. "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. NischikSelective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts