Parallel Encounters by Gillian Roberts
The essays collected in Parallel Encounters 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.-
Cultural Studies
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Moment to Monument – The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance (in collaboration with Regula Hohl Trillini, Jennifer Jermann and Markus
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Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other
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Dancing Fear and Desire
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Covering Niagara
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Making It Like a Man
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Canadian Cultural Poesis
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Resisting Arrest
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Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada
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Material Cultures in Canada
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Reclaiming Canadian Bodies
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When Technocultures Collide
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Celebrity Cultures in Canada
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Imagining Resistance
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Three Mothers, Three Daughters
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The Puerto Rican Syndrome
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Guilty Pleasures
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Killing Women
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Ideology
"'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 excellent section on indigenous cultures, and gives us exceptional essays on key texts and poetics. This volume is invaluable for any reader interested in the politics and poetics of the border." -- Winfried Siemerling, University of Waterloo, author of 'The New North American Studies' (2005), co-editor of 'Canada and Its Americas' (2010)
"'Parallel Encounters' focuses on cultural productions about Canada and its relationship to the border with the United States and thus draws much-needed attention to a geography that has remained under-examined in hemispheric American and border studies. A wake-up call to fields that have largely remained grounded in US research traditions and perspectives, the collection is the first to bring together the work of scholars working primarily in Canada and the United Kingdom on issues of indigeneity and slavery in the Canadian context, and on a variety of media forms." -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, author of 'Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States' (2008)
"'Parallel Encounters' focuses on cultural productions about Canada and its relationship to the border with the United States and thus draws much-needed attention to a geography that has remained under-examined in hemispheric American and border studies. A wake-up call to fields that have largely remained grounded in US research traditions and perspectives, the collection is the first to bring together the work of scholars working primarily in Canada and the United Kingdom on issues of indigeneity and slavery in the Canadian context, and on a variety of media forms." -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, author of 'Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States' (2008)
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 the principal investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network.
David Stirrup is a senior lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent. He is the principal investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Culture and the Canada-US Border international research network.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781554589845 |
| ISBN 10 | 1554589843 |
| Title | Parallel Encounters |
| Author | Gillian Roberts |
| Series | Cultural Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Year published | 2013-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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