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Literary Criticism Native American

Border Crossings

Thomas King's Cultural Inversions

by (author) Arnold E. Davidson, Priscilla Walton & Jennifer Andrews

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2003
Category
Native American, Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802041340
    Publish Date
    Apr 2003
    List Price
    $61.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442671539
    Publish Date
    Mar 2003
    List Price
    $60.00

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Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Governor General's Awards, and his first novel, Medicine River, has been transformed into a CBC movie. His books have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and People magazine. King is also the author of the serialized radio series The Dead Dog Café and is an accomplished photographer. Border Crossings is the first full-length study to explore King's art.

Davidson, Walton, and Andrews employ a framework of postcolonial and border studies theory to examine the concepts of nation, race, and sexuality in King's work. They examine how King's art routinely explores cross-cultural dynamics, including Native rights and race relations, American and Canadian cultural interaction, and the artistic traditions of Europe and North America. The authors argue that, by situating these concepts within a comic framework, King avoids the polemics that often surface in cultural critiques. His writing engages, entertains, and educates. This provocative analysis of King's art reads across cultures and between borders, and makes an important contribution to the study of Native writing, Canadian and American literature, border studies, and humour studies.

About the authors

The late Arnold E. Davidson was a research professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University.

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Priscilla L. Walton is a professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

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Jennifer Andrews is a professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

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