Interdisciplinary And Cross-cultural

North America is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. In this emerging context narratives play a crucial role in weaving patterns that in turn provide fabrics for our lives. In this thoroughly original collection, Interdisciplina

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

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1. Introduction

MARK CRONLUND ANDERSON and IRENE MARIA F. BLAYER

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2. Recycling Red Riding Hood in the Americas

SANDRA L. BECKETT

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3. Counter-Stories and Border Identities: Storytelling and Myth as a Means of Identification, Subversion, and Survival in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman" and "Tony's Story"

PAULINE MOREL

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4. A Dialogic Reading of Oral Literature: Harry Robinson's Write It On Your Heart and Beowulf

BERNIE HARDER

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(14)

5. "Blitzkuchen": An Exploration of Story-Telling in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife

UTE LISCHKE

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6. Storytelling and Transformative Spaces in Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jays Dance, The Birchbark House, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

DAVID T. McNAB

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7. Palmer Cox: Telling Stories to Produce Modern Children

EILEEN MARGERUM

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8. The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Roch Carrier's La Guerre, yes sir!: A Twentieth-Century Novel with Renaissance Echoes

MARY ANNE HARSH

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(12)

9. Longfellow's "Evangeline" and Mailett's Pelagie-la-Charrette: Storytelling and the Soul of l'Acadie

GREGORY MAILLET

121

(16)

10. Singing His America: Narrative Strategies of Dissonance in the Story-Songs of Steve Earle

ANTHONY G. MURPHY

137

(14)

11. Sexual/Textual Politics in Chronicles of a Death and a Birth Foretold: 1953 by France Daigle

MONIKA BOEHRINGER

151

(12)

List of Contributors

163

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Index

167

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Interdisciplinary And Cross-cultural Narratives In North America

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