Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 311 Seiten)
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ill., map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226005539
Content:
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 investigates how our understa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Imagining North America; 1. Before the Border: Indigenous Geographies of North America; 2. Fugitive Geographies: Rerouting the Stories of North American Slavery; 3. Women of the South Bank: The Mexican Routes of American Modernism; 4. Jack Kerouac's North America; 5. Continental Ops: Crossing Borders in North American Crime Narrative; 6. The Northern Borderlands and Latino/a Canadian Diaspora; Epilogue: The Nafta Superhighway and the Limits of North American Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226005526
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226005518
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226005522
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226005515
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Adams, Rachel, 1968 - Continental divides Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN 0226005526
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226005518
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226005522
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226005515
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Geschichte
;
Nordamerika
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Staatsgrenze
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Transnationale Politik
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Kulturelle Identität
;
Nordamerika
;
Interkulturalität
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