TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Gillian
TI  - Discrepant parallels: cultural implications of the Canada-US border 
AV  - F1029 .D573 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Navigating the "International Dots and Dashes": Travelling the Canada-US Border; 2 Securing Canadianness: Canada's Border Policing Dramas; 3 Strategic Parallels: Indigenous Border Crossings; 4 The "Strait Razorous Border": African-Canadian Perspectives; 5 "Somos Todos Americanos": Hemispheric Canada; Conclusion; Notes; Index; 2; b
N2  - The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border. But in contemporary Canadian culture, the border has multiple meanings, and imbalances of cultural power occur both across the Canada-US border as well as within Canada. 'Discrepant Parallels' examines divergent relationships to, and investments in, the Canada-US border in a variety of media, such as travel writing, fiction, poetry, drama, and television
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