Research Catalog

Title

Parallel encounters : culture at the Canada-US border / Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup, editors.

Publication

• Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Stirrup, David
• Roberts, Gillian, 1976-

Description

vii, 344 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural studies series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)

Subject

• Indians of North America > Travel
• Globalization > Social aspects
• Transnationalism > Social aspects
• Canada > 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric / Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup -- Popular Culture and/at the Border. 2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings / Jennifer Andrews -- 3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada -- US Border / Jan Clarke -- 4. Television, Nation, and National Security: The CBC's The Border / Sarah A. Matheson -- 5. "Normalizing Relations": The Canada/Cuban Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse / Joanne C. Elvy and Luis Rene Fernandez Tabio -- 6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash / Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson -- Indigenous Cultures and North American Borders. 7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the US -- Canada Border / Maggie Ann Bowers --^
• 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 -- 9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water / Catherine Bates -- 10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada -- US Border / David Stirrup -- 11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America / Sarah E.K. Smith -- 12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldua, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams / Zalfa Feghali -- Theorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation. 13 "Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas / Maureen Kincaid Speller -- 14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and "The White Nigger" in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's The Clockmaker / Jade Ferguson --^
• 15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada -- US Border / Susan Billingham -- 16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaetan Soucy's Vaudeville! / Jeffrey Orr -- 17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century / Nasser Hussain -- 18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing / Lynette Hunter.

ISBN

• 9781554589845 (bound)
• 1554589843 (bound)

OCLC

852220744

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library