Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.

Autorentext
Reingard M. Nischik is Professor and Chair of North American Studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Inhalt
Introduction

1. Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts
2. Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story
3. Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives
4. On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood's Works
5. Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism
6. "The Writer, the Reader, and the Book": Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. Nischik
   Selective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts