Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Narratives in North America

The series is designed to advance the publication of research pertaining to themes and motifs in literature. The studies cover cross-cultural patterns as well as the entire range of national literatures. They trace the development and use of themes and motifs over extended periods, elucidate the significance of specific themes or motifs for the formation of period styles, and analyze the unique structural function of themes and motifs.

North America is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. In this emerging context narratives play a crucial role in weaving patterns that in turn provide fabrics for our lives. In this thoroughly original collection, Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Narratives in North America, a dozen scholars deploy a variety of provocative and illuminating approaches to explore and understand the many ways that stories speak to, from, within, and across culture(s) in North America.

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The Editors: Mark Cronlund Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Luther College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the author of Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines as well as of a forthcoming study, Frontier Hollywood, Carnal Westerns, and American Imperialism, which explores how American film has served as a vehicle for the mythical promotion of Manifest Destiny.
Irene Maria F. Blayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Her main area of specialization embraces the comparative study of Romance linguistics within a historical context. Other research interests explore linguistic issues embedded in oral and written narrative traditions, and the concepts of identity and culture. Recent publications include among others two co-edited volumes: Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives (Lang, 2002) and Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings (Lang, 2004).

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Contents: Mark Cronlund Anderson/Irene Maria F. Blayer: Introduction Sandra L. Beckett: Recycling Red Riding Hood in the Americas Pauline Morel: Counter-Stories and Border Identities: Storytelling and Myth as a Means of Identification, Subversion, and Survival in Leslie Marmon Silko's «Yellow Woman» and «Tony's Story» Bernie Harder: A Dialogic Reading of Oral Literature: Harry Robinson's Write It On Your Heart and Beowulf Ute Lischke: «Blitzkuchen»: An Exploration of Story-Telling in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife David T. McNab: Storytelling and Transformative Spaces in Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jay's Dance, The Birchbark House and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Eileen Margerum: Palmer Cox: Telling Stories to Produce Modern Children Mary Anne Harsh: The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Roch Carrier's La Guerre, yes sir!: A Twentieth-Century Novel with Renaissance Echoes Gregory Maillet: Longfellow's «Evangeline» and Mailett's Pélagie-la-Charrette: Storytelling and the Soul of l'Acadie Anthony G. Murphy: Singing His America: Narrative Strategies of Dissonance in the Story-Songs of Steve Earle Monika Boehringer: Sexual/Textual Politics in Chronicles of a Death and a Birth Foretold: 1953 by France Daigle.