Canada-US border narratives and US hemispheric studies

This article analyzes recent English-language narratives about the Canada–US border, which help to move US inter-American considerations beyond their current emphasis on the Latin American–US relationship and which also help redirect Canadian studies from its internally oriented focus toward a larger, hemispheric perspective. In this fiction, the Canada–US frontier symbolizes Canada's internal diversity, its declining economic, political, and cultural autonomy, and/or its growing relationship to other parts of the hemisphere. Contemporary fiction about the northern frontier thus shifts the cultural nationalist focus on the border as a line of largely cultural distinction between Canadian and US identities toward a more complex emphasis on Canada's position in the hemisphere in the context of the country's continuing dependence on the USA

Autonomy · Cultural diversity · Frontier · Latin Americans · Linguistics · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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