Parallel Encounters : Culture at the Canada-US Border

by Gillian Roberts

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...