Parallel Encounters

"'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)
"'Parallel Encounters' focuses on cultural productions about Canada and its relationship to the border with the United States and thus draws much-needed attention to a geography that has remained under-examined in hemispheric American and border studies. A wake-up call to fields that have largely remained grounded in US research traditions and perspectives, the collection is the first to bring together the work of scholars working primarily in Canada and the United Kingdom on issues of indigeneity and slavery in the Canadian context, and on a variety of media forms." -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, author of 'Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States' (2008)