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Border Insecurity: Reading Transnational Environments In Jim Lynch’S Border Songs, Jenny Kerber Jan 2017

Border Insecurity: Reading Transnational Environments In Jim Lynch’S Border Songs, Jenny Kerber

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

This article applies an eco-critical approach to contemporary American fiction about the Canada-US border, examining Jim Lynch’s portrayal of the British Columbia-Washington borderlands in his 2009 novel Border Songs. It argues that studying transnational environmental actors in border texts—in this case, marijuana, human migrants, and migratory birds—helps illuminate the contingency of political boundaries, problems of scale, and discourses of risk and security in cross-border regions after 9/11. Further, it suggests that widening the analysis of trans-border activity to include environmental phenomena productively troubles concepts of nature and regional belonging in an era of climate change and economic globalization. Cet …


Crossing America’S Borders: Chinese Immigrants In The Southwesterns Of The 1920s And 1930s, Philippa Gates Jan 2017

Crossing America’S Borders: Chinese Immigrants In The Southwesterns Of The 1920s And 1930s, Philippa Gates

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

Today, when we think of the film Western, we think of a genre dominated by Anglo-American heroes conquering the various struggles and obstacles that the nineteenth-century frontier presented to settlers and gunslingers alike—from the daunting terrain and inclement environment of deserts, mountains, and plains to the violent opposition posed by cattle ranchers and Native Americans. What we tend to forget, most likely because the most famous Westerns of the last seventy-five years also forgot, is that Chinese immigrants played an important role in that frontier history. As Edward Buscombe confirms, “[g]iven the importance of their contribution, particularly to the construction …


Narrative Pleasures And Feminist Politics: Popular Women’S Historical Fiction, 1990-2015, Victoria Kennedy Jan 2017

Narrative Pleasures And Feminist Politics: Popular Women’S Historical Fiction, 1990-2015, Victoria Kennedy

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation contributes to a developing body of work on women’s historical fiction and its significance to feminist discourse. Building from Diana Wallace’s 2005 study The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000, I offer a modified definition of “the woman’s historical novel” and a transatlantic consideration of several of the most popular titles in the contemporary period, including The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), Outlander (1991), A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003), and Scarlett (1991). Several studies have followed Wallace’s, notably Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn’s Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2007) and Katherine Cooper and Emma …


Stone: Walking Through The Burren, Nancy Ellen Miller Sep 2016

Stone: Walking Through The Burren, Nancy Ellen Miller

The Goose

Poetry by Nancy Ellen Miller


Nine Poems On The Death Of My Mother, Jaime Robles Sep 2016

Nine Poems On The Death Of My Mother, Jaime Robles

The Goose

Poetry by Jaime Robles


Poetry Editorial: Seeing Words, Camilla Nelson Sep 2016

Poetry Editorial: Seeing Words, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Poetry Editorial by Camilla Nelson


A A Novel 40-45, Derek A. Beaulieu Sep 2016

A A Novel 40-45, Derek A. Beaulieu

The Goose

Poetry by Derek Beaulieu


Visual Poetry Responses To A Changing City-Scape, Andrew Taylor Sep 2016

Visual Poetry Responses To A Changing City-Scape, Andrew Taylor

The Goose

Poetry by Andrew Taylor


Wave Equations, Matt Martin Sep 2016

Wave Equations, Matt Martin

The Goose

Poster poem by Matt Martin


Three Poems, Scott T. Starbuck Sep 2016

Three Poems, Scott T. Starbuck

The Goose

Poetry by Scott Tarbuck


Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin Sep 2016

Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin

The Goose

Poetry by Gary Barwin


Her Behind Him, Tim Brennan Sep 2016

Her Behind Him, Tim Brennan

The Goose

Poetry by Tim Brennan


The Yellow Line: Whose View Is It Anyway?, Harriet Fraser Sep 2016

The Yellow Line: Whose View Is It Anyway?, Harriet Fraser

The Goose

Poetry by Harriet Fraser


Prairie Surreal--A Digital-Poetic Road Trip, Mari-Lou Rowley Sep 2016

Prairie Surreal--A Digital-Poetic Road Trip, Mari-Lou Rowley

The Goose

Poetry by Mari-Lou Rowley


Ictus/Curiad/Ignis/Prog, Rhys G. Trimble Sep 2016

Ictus/Curiad/Ignis/Prog, Rhys G. Trimble

The Goose

Poetry by Rhys Trimble


Blank Five, Elizabeth Anne Godwin Sep 2016

Blank Five, Elizabeth Anne Godwin

The Goose

Poetry by Elizabeth Godwin


Vista, Sarah Switzer Sep 2016

Vista, Sarah Switzer

The Goose

Poetry by Sarah Switzer


An Article Definitely And Other Poems, Reuben Woolley Sep 2016

An Article Definitely And Other Poems, Reuben Woolley

The Goose

Poetry by Reuben Woolley


Cerdded, Fay Stevens Sep 2016

Cerdded, Fay Stevens

The Goose

Poetry by Fay Stevens


Water.Under, J. R. Carpenter Sep 2016

Water.Under, J. R. Carpenter

The Goose

Poetry by JR Carpenter


Seismic/Ley Lines, Brook Wr Pearson Sep 2016

Seismic/Ley Lines, Brook Wr Pearson

The Goose

Poetry by Brook Pearson


Concrete Poem Diary, Karen Barton Sep 2016

Concrete Poem Diary, Karen Barton

The Goose

Poetry by Karen Barton


The Plus Nines Of Climate Change, Lucy Burnett Sep 2016

The Plus Nines Of Climate Change, Lucy Burnett

The Goose

Poetry by Lucy Burnett


Editor's Notebook, Amanda M. Di Battista, Paul Huebener Aug 2016

Editor's Notebook, Amanda M. Di Battista, Paul Huebener

The Goose

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 15, Issue 1 (2016).


Searching Cézanne’S Provence, Robert M. Girvan Aug 2016

Searching Cézanne’S Provence, Robert M. Girvan

The Goose

This personal essay describes the author's visit to Provence to see the sites where Cézanne painted a number of well-known landscape paintings. He compares the paintings with the landscape as it existed when the paintings were painted, and as exist today, to trace the connections between landscape, and art, and in particular, Cézanne's artistic techniques. Finally, the author suggests that Cézanne's close observation of the natural world, and commitment to studying the old masters still has something important to teach us today in our digital age.


Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson, Tonia L. Payne Aug 2016

Echo Soundings: Essays On Poetry And Poetics By Jeffery Donaldson, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of Jeffery Donaldson's Echo Soundings: Essays on Poetry and Poetics.


A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid, Gina M. Granter Aug 2016

A World For My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search For Optimism By Alejandro Frid, Gina M. Granter

The Goose

Review of Alejandro Frid's A World for My Daughter: An Ecologist’s Search for Optimism.


Float By Joeann Hart, Tonia L. Payne Aug 2016

Float By Joeann Hart, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of Joeann Hart's Float.


The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography Of Poetry, Person, Place By Tom Bristow, Mark Dickinson Aug 2016

The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography Of Poetry, Person, Place By Tom Bristow, Mark Dickinson

The Goose

Review of Tom Bristow's The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place.


Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny, Catriona Duncan Aug 2016

Yes, And Back Again By Sandy Marie Bonny, Catriona Duncan

The Goose

Review of Sandy Marie Bonny's Yes, and Back Again.