Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Narratives in North America

The Editors: Mark Cronlund Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Luther College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the author of Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines as well as of a forthcoming study, Frontier Hollywood, Carnal Westerns, and American Imperialism, which explores how American film has served as a vehicle for the mythical promotion of Manifest Destiny. Irene Maria F. Blayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Her main area of specialization embraces the comparative study of Romance linguistics within a historical context. Other research interests explore linguistic issues embedded in oral and written narrative traditions, and the concepts of identity and culture. Recent publications include among others two co-edited volumes: Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives (Lang, 2002) and Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings (Lang, 2004).