Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-6-2015
Department
Department of English and Film Studies
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Jenny Kerber (2015) Caribou, Petroleum, and the Limits of Locality in the Canada–US Borderlands, American Review of Canadian Studies, 45:3, 332-345, DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2015.1063522
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English Language and Literature Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES on 6 October 2015, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2015.1063522