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West/Border/Road : Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative

2018

The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, and new modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations. An understanding of how Canadian culture negotiates its rapport with American genres has never been more timely. West/Border/Road offers an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary Canadian manifestations of three American genres: the western, the border, and the road. It situates close readings of literary, film, and television narratives from both English Canada and Quebec within a larger context of Canadian generic borrowing and innovation. Katherine Ann Roberts calls upon canonical works in Canadian studies, theories of genre, and a wide range of scholarship from border studies, cultural studies, and film studies to examine how genre is appropriated and sometimes reworked and how these cultural narratives engage with discourses of contemporary Canadian nationhood. The author elucidates Guy Vanderhaeghe's rewriting of the codes of the historical western to include the trauma of Aboriginal peoples, Aritha van Herk's playful spoof on American western iconography, the politics and perils of the representation of the Canada-US border in CBC-produced crime television, and how the road genre inspires and constrains the Québécois and Canadian road movie. A reminder of the power and limitations of American genres, West/Border/Road provides a nuanced perspective on Canadian engagement with cultural forms that may be imported but never foreign.
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Authors

Katherine Ann Roberts

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-394) and index
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CaOOCEL
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
303.48/271073
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9780773553224 9780773554399
LCCN
F1021.2
LCCN Item number
R63 2018eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaBNVSL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (404 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00976043 (CaOOCEL)454298
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaBNVSL

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