The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada-US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences.
The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada-US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gillian Roberts is a lecturer in North American Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is co-investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network. She recently completed a monograph on cultural representations of the Canada-US border. David Stirrup is a senior lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent. He is the principal investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network.
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1. Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup 4. Popular Culture and/at the Border 5. 2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings Jennifer Andrews 6. 3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border Jan Clarke 7. 4. Television, Nation, and National Security: CBC's The Border Sarah A. Matheson 8. 5. ""Normalizing Relations"": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío 9. 6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson 10. Indigenous Cultures and North American Borders 11. 7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the Canada-US Border Maggie Ann Bowers 12. 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 Gillian Roberts 13. 9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water Catherine Bates 14. 10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border David Stirrup 15. 11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America Sarah E.K. Smith 16. 12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams Zalfa Feghali 17. Theorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation 18. 13. ""Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others"": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas Maureen Kincaid Speller 19. 14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ""The White Nigger"" in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker Jade Ferguson 20. 15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border Susan Billingham 21. 16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! Jeffrey Orr 22. 17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Nasser Hussain 23. 18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing Lynette Hunter 24. Notes on Contributors 25. Index
1. Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup 4. Popular Culture and/at the Border 5. 2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings Jennifer Andrews 6. 3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border Jan Clarke 7. 4. Television, Nation, and National Security: CBC's The Border Sarah A. Matheson 8. 5. ""Normalizing Relations"": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío 9. 6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson 10. Indigenous Cultures and North American Borders 11. 7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the Canada-US Border Maggie Ann Bowers 12. 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 Gillian Roberts 13. 9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water Catherine Bates 14. 10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border David Stirrup 15. 11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America Sarah E.K. Smith 16. 12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams Zalfa Feghali 17. Theorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation 18. 13. ""Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others"": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas Maureen Kincaid Speller 19. 14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ""The White Nigger"" in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker Jade Ferguson 20. 15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border Susan Billingham 21. 16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! Jeffrey Orr 22. 17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Nasser Hussain 23. 18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing Lynette Hunter 24. Notes on Contributors 25. Index
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