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.

• Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David StirrupAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric Gillian Roberts and David StirrupPopular Culture and/at the Border2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings Jennifer Andrews3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border Jan Clarke4. Television, Nation, and National Security: CBC's The Border Sarah A. Matheson5. ""Normalizing Relations"": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash Lee Easton and Kelly HewsonIndigenous Cultures and North American Borders7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the Canada-US Border Maggie Ann Bowers8. Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor's In a World Created by a Drunken God Gillian Roberts9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water Catherine Bates10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border David Stirrup11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America Sarah E.K. Smith12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams Zalfa FeghaliTheorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation13. ""Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others"": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas Maureen Kincaid Speller14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ""The White Nigger"" in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker Jade Ferguson15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border Susan Billingham16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! Jeffrey Orr17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Nasser Hussain18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing Lynette HunterNotes on ContributorsIndex

"'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)

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.

• Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David StirrupAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric Gillian Roberts and David StirrupPopular Culture and/at the Border2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings Jennifer Andrews3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border Jan Clarke4. Television, Nation, and National Security: CBC's The Border Sarah A. Matheson5. ""Normalizing Relations"": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash Lee Easton and Kelly HewsonIndigenous Cultures and North American Borders7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the Canada-US Border Maggie Ann Bowers8. Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor's In a World Created by a Drunken God Gillian Roberts9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water Catherine Bates10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border David Stirrup11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America Sarah E.K. Smith12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams Zalfa FeghaliTheorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation13. ""Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others"": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas Maureen Kincaid Speller14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ""The White Nigger"" in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker Jade Ferguson15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border Susan Billingham16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! Jeffrey Orr17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Nasser Hussain18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing Lynette HunterNotes on ContributorsIndex

"'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)

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.

• Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-Border, edited by Gillian Roberts and David StirrupAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Culture at the 49th Parallel: Nationalism, Indigeneity, and the Hemispheric Gillian Roberts and David StirrupPopular Culture and/at the Border2. Queer(y)ing Fur: Reading Fashion Television's Border Crossings Jennifer Andrews3. Meanings of Health as Cultural Identity and Ideology Across the Canada-US Border Jan Clarke4. Television, Nation, and National Security: CBC's The Border Sarah A. Matheson5. ""Normalizing Relations"": The Canada/Cuba Imaginary on the Fringe of Border Discourse Joanne C. Elvy and Luis René Fernández Tabío6. How, Exactly, Does the Beaver Bite Back? The Case of Canadian Students Viewing Paul Haggis's Crash Lee Easton and Kelly HewsonIndigenous Cultures and North American Borders7. Discursive Positioning: A Comparative Study of Postcolonialism in Native Studies Across the Canada-US Border Maggie Ann Bowers8. Strategic Parallels: Invoking the Border in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water and Drew Hayden Taylor's In a World Created by a Drunken God Gillian Roberts9. Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water Catherine Bates10. Bridging the Third Bank: Indigeneity and Installation Art at the Canada-US Border David Stirrup11. Cross-Border Identifications and Dislocations: Visual Art and the Construction of Identity in North America Sarah E.K. Smith12. Conversations That Never Happened: The Writing and Activism of Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Campbell, and Howard Adams Zalfa FeghaliTheorizing the Border: Literature, Performance, Translation13. ""Some Borders Are More Easily Crossed Than Others"": Negotiating Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras Americanas Maureen Kincaid Speller14. Discounting Slavery: The Currency Wars, Minstrelsy, and ""The White Nigger"" in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker Jade Ferguson15. Detained at Customs: Jane Rule, Censorship, and the Politics of Crossing the Canada-US Border Susan Billingham16. Strangers in Strange Lands: Cultural Translation in Gaétan Soucy's Vaudeville! Jeffrey Orr17. Bodies of Information: Cross-Border Poetics in the Twenty-First Century Nasser Hussain18. Bordering on Borders: Dream, Memory, and Allegories of Writing Lynette HunterNotes on ContributorsIndex

"'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)