Riding/Writing Across Borders in North Amerincan Travelogues and Fiction

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Verlag Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Verlag, 2011

ISBN 9783700171737 , 395 Seiten

Format PDF, OL

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Table of Contents: 6
Acknowledgements: 8
Introduction: 10
Stygian Suitcases: 22
Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Voyage: 36
Wied’s Reise in das innere Nord-America and the Capabilities of the Ethnographic Travelogue: 66
German Scientists and Artists Exploring the Trans Mississippi West: 84
Louisa Catherine Adams: 100
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Wondrous Stream Riding the Borders of Antebellum Experience: 114
Portable Boundaries: 130
The Moment of Arrival: 138
Paved with Good Intentions: 152
African Canadian Writing at the Crossroads of Space and Time: 186
Orbiting Home: 202
New Orleans, Paris, and Nostalgia: 214
Crossing Borders in Margaret Atwood’s Cartoon Art: 242
Crossing into Wilderness: 260
Border-crossings, Inter-cultural Encounters, and the Negotiation of Otherness in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers: 282
Border Crossings: 320
Crossing Borders of Time and Space: 352
Border Crossings in Contemporary Canadian Responses to the Two World Wars: 370
List of Contributors: 392