ISBN:
1306547776
,
9781554589982
,
9781306547772
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (344 pages)
,
illustrations (chiefly colour)
Series Statement:
Cultural studies series
Series Statement:
Cultural Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Parallel Encounters : Culture at the Canada-US Border
DDC:
303.48/271073
Keywords:
Globalization Social aspects
;
Transnationalism Social aspects
;
Indians of North America -- Travel
;
Globalization -- Social aspects
;
Transnationalism -- Social aspects
;
Canada -- Civilization -- American influences
;
Northern boundary of the United States -- Civilization
;
Canada -- Relations -- United States
;
United States -- Relations -- Canada
;
Canada ; Boundaries ; United States
;
United States ; Boundaries ; Canada
;
Indians of North America ; Travel
;
Globalization ; Social aspects
;
Transnationalism ; Social aspects
;
Canada ; Civilization ; American influences
;
Northern boundary of the United States ; Civilization
;
Canada ; Relations ; United States
;
United States ; Relations ; Canada
;
Electronic books
;
United States Boundaries
;
Canada Civilization
;
American influences
;
Northern boundary of the United States Civilization
;
Canada Relations
;
United States Relations
;
Canada Boundaries
Abstract:
The essays collected offer analysis of cultural representations of the Canada-US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors examine a variety of forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric -- Popular Culture and/at the Border -- 2 Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings -- 3 Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border -- 4 Television, Nation, and National Security: The CBC's The Border -- 5 "Normalizing Relations": The Canada/Cuban Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse -- 6 How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash -- Indigenous Cultures and North American Borders -- 7 Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the US-Canada Border -- 8 Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor's In a World Created by a Drunken God -- 9 Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & -- Bright Water -- 10 Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border -- 11 Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America -- 12 Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams -- Theorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation -- 13 "Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas -- 14 Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and "The White Nigger" in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker -- 15 Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border -- 16 Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! -- 17 Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric""; ""Popular Culture and/at the Border""; ""2 Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television�s Border Crossings""; ""3 Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada�US Border""; ""4 Television, Nation, and National Security: The CBC�s The Border""; ""5 “Normalizing Relations�: The Canada/Cuban Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6 How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis�s Crash""""Indigenous Cultures and North American Borders""; ""7 Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the US�Canada Border""; ""8 Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King�s Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor�s In a World Created by a Drunken God""; ""9 Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King�s Truth & Bright Water""; ""10 Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada�US Border""
Description / Table of Contents:
""11 Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America""""12 Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams""; ""Theorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation""; ""13 “Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others�: Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia�s Fronteras Americanas""; ""14 Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and “The White Nigger� in Thomas Chandler Haliburton�s The Clockmaker""
Description / Table of Contents:
""15 Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada�US Border""""16 Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy�s Vaudeville!""; ""17 Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century""; ""18 Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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