Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border

Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country
Canada
Published
6 December 2013
Pages
354
ISBN
9781554589845

Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border

The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the CanadaaUS border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel. The field of border studies has hitherto neglected the CanadaaUS border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal and political frameworks. Border studies has long been rooted in the USaMexico divide; shifting the locus of that discussion north to the 49th parallel, the contributors ask what added complications a site-specific analysis of culture at the CanadaaUS border can bring to the conversation. In so doing, this collection responds to the demands of Hemispheric American Studies to broaden considerations of the significance of American culture to the Americas as a wholeabringing Canadian Studies into dialogue with the dominantly US-centric critical theory in questions of citizenship, globalization, Indigenous mobilization, hemispheric exchange, and transnationalism.

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