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Continental Divides
Rachel Adams
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Description for Continental Divides
Paperback. North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. This book studies the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. "Continental Divides" is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study ... Read more
North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. "Continental Divides" is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226005522
SKU
V9780226005522
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About Rachel Adams
Rachel Adams is associate professor of English at Columbia University and the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Continental Divides
"A powerful work of scholarship, Continental Divides will become a model for reconceiving American literature, culture, and history in a complex international context. Adams's work on North American literature and culture will be highly significant." - Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley"