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Reading between the BorderlinesCultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel |
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An investigation into how culture is made, moved, and used across the Canada-US border.
Is Superman Canadian? Who decides, and what is at stake in such a question? How is the Underground Railroad commemorated differently in Canada and the United States, and can those differences be bridged? How can we acknowledge properly the Canadian labour behind Hollywood filmmaking, and what would that do to our sense of national cinema?
Reading between the Borderlines grapples with these questions and others surrounding the production and consumption of literary, cinematic, musical, visual, and print culture across the Canada-US border. Discussing a range of popular as well as highbrow cultural forms, this collection investigates patterns of cross-border cultural exchange that become visible within a variety of genres, regardless of their place in any arbitrarily devised cultural hierarchy. The essays also consider the many interests served, compromised, or negated by the operations of the transnational economy, the movement of culture's "raw material" across nation-state borders in literal and conceptual terms, and the configuration of a material citizenship attributed to or negotiated around border-crossing cultural objects.
Challenging the oversimplification of cultural products labelled either "Canadian" or "American," Reading between the Borderlines contends with the particularities and complications of North American cultural exchange, both historically and in the present.
Reading between the Borderlines grapples with these questions and others surrounding the production and consumption of literary, cinematic, musical, visual, and print culture across the Canada-US border. Discussing a range of popular as well as highbrow cultural forms, this collection investigates patterns of cross-border cultural exchange that become visible within a variety of genres, regardless of their place in any arbitrarily devised cultural hierarchy. The essays also consider the many interests served, compromised, or negated by the operations of the transnational economy, the movement of culture's "raw material" across nation-state borders in literal and conceptual terms, and the configuration of a material citizenship attributed to or negotiated around border-crossing cultural objects.
Challenging the oversimplification of cultural products labelled either "Canadian" or "American," Reading between the Borderlines contends with the particularities and complications of North American cultural exchange, both historically and in the present.
Details
336 Pages, 6 x 9
15 b&w images
ISBN 9780773555136
December 2018
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“Reading between the Borderlines - a remarkably even, fresh, and insightful collection of essays - pushes the reader to question national ownership of texts and lays bare how and when the border matters in cultural production and consumption, and when it doesn’t.” Andrew C. Holman, Bridgewater State University, and co-editor of The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec
“An excellent collection that takes a new and compelling approach to culture and the border, Reading between the Borderlines makes very strong addition to the literature on borderlands in general, and the Canada-US border in particular.” Kyle Conway, University of Ottawa and co-editor of Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies
"Reading between the Borderlines is an insightful and intellectually stimulating book. It brings a new relevance to the task of explaining culture across the 49th Parallel." American Review of Canadian Studies
"The one impression Reading Between the Border Lines reinforce(s) is that borders exist not only between nations/countries but also inside them, and remain sources of tension, both creative and destructive." British Journal of Canadian Studies
“[Reading Between the Borderlines] is impeccably edited and well-written. Its wide-ranging contributions make it a mandatory addition to any library concerned with North American studies.” Amerikastudien / American Studies
“An excellent collection that takes a new and compelling approach to culture and the border, Reading between the Borderlines makes very strong addition to the literature on borderlands in general, and the Canada-US border in particular.” Kyle Conway, University of Ottawa and co-editor of Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies
"Reading between the Borderlines is an insightful and intellectually stimulating book. It brings a new relevance to the task of explaining culture across the 49th Parallel." American Review of Canadian Studies
"The one impression Reading Between the Border Lines reinforce(s) is that borders exist not only between nations/countries but also inside them, and remain sources of tension, both creative and destructive." British Journal of Canadian Studies
“[Reading Between the Borderlines] is impeccably edited and well-written. Its wide-ranging contributions make it a mandatory addition to any library concerned with North American studies.” Amerikastudien / American Studies
Gillian Roberts is associate professor of North American cultural studies at the University of Nottingham and author of Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border.
Figures / vii
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction - Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship / 3
Gillian Roberts
PART ONE CROSS-BORDER CULTURAL PRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PROCESSES
1 Writing Back to Massa: The Black Open Letter in Transnational Abolitionist Print Culture / 41
Alyssa MacLean
2 The Industrial Newspaper and the Politics of Content / 67
Michael Stamm
3 Music within Bounds: Distribution, Borders, and the Canadian Recording Industry / 91
Richard Sutherland
4 Heroes, Borders, and Canadian Culture: The Superman Reclamation Project / 113
Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson
PART TWO BEYOND THE BORDER: IDEALS AND REALITIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL WORK
5 An Empire of Pixels: Canadian Cultural Enterprise in the Digital Effects Industry / 143
Charles R. Acland
6 Commemorating the (In)visible Border: The Underground Railroad Monument and the Production of Transnational Memory / 171
Brittney Anne Bos
7 Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada / 199
Jessica Taylor
PART THREE CROSS-BORDER READING
8 Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi / 225
Gillian Roberts
9 Acadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams: Revisioning Evangeline North of the Border / 243
Jennifer Andrews
10 Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Reading across Borders / 272
Kit Dobson
11 “We Have to Get Along with Others”: Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Border Literary History / 290
Zalfa Feghali
Contributors / 311
Index / 315
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction - Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship / 3
Gillian Roberts
PART ONE CROSS-BORDER CULTURAL PRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PROCESSES
1 Writing Back to Massa: The Black Open Letter in Transnational Abolitionist Print Culture / 41
Alyssa MacLean
2 The Industrial Newspaper and the Politics of Content / 67
Michael Stamm
3 Music within Bounds: Distribution, Borders, and the Canadian Recording Industry / 91
Richard Sutherland
4 Heroes, Borders, and Canadian Culture: The Superman Reclamation Project / 113
Lee Easton and Kelly Hewson
PART TWO BEYOND THE BORDER: IDEALS AND REALITIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL WORK
5 An Empire of Pixels: Canadian Cultural Enterprise in the Digital Effects Industry / 143
Charles R. Acland
6 Commemorating the (In)visible Border: The Underground Railroad Monument and the Production of Transnational Memory / 171
Brittney Anne Bos
7 Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada / 199
Jessica Taylor
PART THREE CROSS-BORDER READING
8 Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi / 225
Gillian Roberts
9 Acadian Identities, Arcadian Dreams: Revisioning Evangeline North of the Border / 243
Jennifer Andrews
10 Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Reading across Borders / 272
Kit Dobson
11 “We Have to Get Along with Others”: Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Border Literary History / 290
Zalfa Feghali
Contributors / 311
Index / 315
