Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America
Autor Rachel Adamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2009
North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in some cases transformed, when Canada and Mexico enter the picture. How, for example, does the work of the iconic American writer Jack Kerouac read differently when his Franco-American origins and Mexican travels are taken into account? Or how would our conception of American modernism be altered if Mexico were positioned as a center of artistic and political activity? In this engaging analysis, Adams charts the lengthy and often unrecognized traditions of neighborly exchange, both hostile and amicable, that have left an imprint on North America’s varied cultures.
Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in some cases transformed, when Canada and Mexico enter the picture. How, for example, does the work of the iconic American writer Jack Kerouac read differently when his Franco-American origins and Mexican travels are taken into account? Or how would our conception of American modernism be altered if Mexico were positioned as a center of artistic and political activity? In this engaging analysis, Adams charts the lengthy and often unrecognized traditions of neighborly exchange, both hostile and amicable, that have left an imprint on North America’s varied cultures.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226005522
ISBN-10: 0226005526
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 29 halftones, 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226005526
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 29 halftones, 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Rachel Adams is associate professor of English at Columbia University and is the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION / Imagining North America
ONE / Before the Border: Indigenous Geographies of North America
TWO / Fugitive Geographies: Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery
THREE / Women of the South Bank: The Mexican Routes of American Modernism
FOUR / Jack Kerouac’s North America
FIVE / Continental Ops: Crossing Borders in North American Crime Narrative
SIX / The Northern Borderlands and Latino/a Canadian Diaspora
EPILOGUE / The Nafta Superhighway and the Limits of North American Community
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION / Imagining North America
ONE / Before the Border: Indigenous Geographies of North America
TWO / Fugitive Geographies: Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery
THREE / Women of the South Bank: The Mexican Routes of American Modernism
FOUR / Jack Kerouac’s North America
FIVE / Continental Ops: Crossing Borders in North American Crime Narrative
SIX / The Northern Borderlands and Latino/a Canadian Diaspora
EPILOGUE / The Nafta Superhighway and the Limits of North American Community
Notes
Bibliography
Index