Canada-US border narratives and US hemispheric studies

Bibliographic Data

ID5021990
AuthorsClaudia Sadowski-Smith, Claudia Sadowski‐smith (0009-0005-1690-8173, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume3
Issue1
Pages63-77
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1177/1477570005050950
OpenAlexW1976270445
LanguageEN
References cited10

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