Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 1322436
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- ISBN
- 9780773545052
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph of approximately 101,000 words explores cultural representations of the Canada-US Border from Canadian nationalist, Indigenous, Black, and hemispheric perspectives. In addition to these diverging views of the function and significance of the border, this study examines a range of cultural forms, including travel writing, serial television, prose fiction, poetry, drama, film, and the graphic novel. Positing that the border is a crucial site for examining Canada’s relationships to colonialism, postcolonialism, and neocolonialism, the monograph deploys the critical lens of hospitality, tracing the relationship of different groups within Canada in relation to a ‘host’ position.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Chapter 1, ‘Navigating the “International Dots and Dashes”: Travelling the Canada-US Border’ of the 296-page monograph, Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border (2015), shares material with the article ‘Navigating the “International Dots and Dashes”: David W. McFadden's Great Lakes Suite and the Canada–US Border,’ published in American Review of Canadian Studies 41.1 (2011): 65-80 and submitted to REF2014. The chapter reconceptualizes and extends the article (from c. 8800 words to c. 17,000 words). It situates McFadden’s work in relation to historical travel writing about the Canada-US border and adds the concept of ‘white civility’ to the analytical frame.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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