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Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber
Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
his article discusses Karsten Heuer’s 2006 book Being Caribou in light of debates in ecocriticism and border studies about how to define the local in the context of environmental problems of vast range and uncertain temporality. It explores how Heuer’s book about following the Porcupine Caribou herd’s migration engages in multiple forms of boundary crossing—between countries, between hemispheric locations, and between species—and shows how insights from Indigenous storytelling complicate the book’s appeal to environmentalist readers by asserting a prior, transnational Indigenous presence in the transboundary landscapes of present-day Alaska and the Yukon.
Remediating The Past: Doing “Periodical Studies” In The Digital Era, Maria Dicenzo
Remediating The Past: Doing “Periodical Studies” In The Digital Era, Maria Dicenzo
English and Film Studies Faculty Publications
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