Andrews, Jennifer.

Border Crossings : Thomas King's Cultural Inversions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (234 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Whose Borders? -- 1 Comic Contexts -- 2 Comic Inversions -- 3 Genre Crossings -- 4 Comedy, Politics, and Audio and Visual Media -- 5 Humouring Race and Nationality -- 6 The Comic Dimensions of Gender, Race, and Nation: King's Contestatory Narratives -- 7 Comic Intertextualities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

The authors argue that, by situating concepts of cross-cultural dynamics within a comic framework, native writer Thomas King avoids the polemics that often surface in cultural critiques.

9781442671539


Electronic books.

PR9199.3.K4422.D385 2003

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