Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
Before the border : indigenous geographies of North America -- Fugitive geographies : rerouting the stories of North American slavery -- Women of the south bank : the Mexican routes of American modernism -- Jack Kerouac's North America -- Continental ops : crossing borders in North American crime narrative -- The northern borderlands and Latino/a Canadian diaspora -- The Nafta superhighway and the limits of North American community.
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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 understand.
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Continental divides.
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Cultural geography-- North America.
Transnationalism.
Civilization.
Cultural geography.
HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)