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Parallel Encounters : Culture at the Canada-US Border.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural StudiesPublisher: Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (355 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781554589982
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Parallel EncountersDDC classification:
  • 303.48/271073
LOC classification:
  • F1029.5.U6 -- P37 2013eb
Online resources:
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 -- 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 &amp -- 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.
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.
Summary: 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.
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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 &amp -- 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.

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.

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.

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