Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border
Roberts G
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Paperback. Editor(s): Roberts, Gillian; Stirrup, David. Num Pages: 314 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
The essays collected in 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. 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 Canada-US border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554589845
SKU
V9781554589845
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About Roberts G
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border
"'Parallel Encounters' is an exciting addition to recent critical work that will not stop at the border! The sustained attention to the Canada-US border in this great collection contributes to crucial disciplinary shifts that now revise national fields in North American, hemispheric, and other transnational contexts. 'Parallel Encounters' reads fashion, television, health, and national security across the border, offers an ... Read more