Continental divides : remapping the cultures of North America / Rachel Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Rachel, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural geography--North America.

Cultural geography.

Transnationalism.

North America--Civilization.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She in

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. Imagining North America

CHAPTER ONE. Before the Border: Indigenous Geographies of North America

CHAPTER TWO. Fugitive Geographies: Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery

CHAPTER THREE. Women of the South Bank: The Mexican Routes of American Modernism

CHAPTER FOUR. Jack Kerouac's North America

CHAPTER FIVE. Continental Ops: Crossing Borders in North American Crime Narrative

CHAPTER SIX. The Northern Borderlands and Latino / a Canadian Diaspora

EPILOGUE. The Nafta Superhighway and the Limits of North American Community

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612646188

9780226005539

0226005534

9781282646186

1282646184

OCLC:

646068354