Table of Contents
Table of Contents for
Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David Stirrup
Acknowledgements
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: CBC's The Border | Sarah A. Matheson
5. "Normalizing Relations": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse | Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío
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 Canada-US 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 Anzaldúa, 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 T.C. 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 Gaétan 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
Notes on Contributors
Index