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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809852903321

Autore

Conway Kyle

Titolo

Beyond the border : tensions across the forty-ninth parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies / / edited by Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-7735-8862-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ConwayKyle

PaschTimothy

Disciplina

971

Soggetti

Borderlands - Social aspects - Prairie Provinces

Borderlands - Social aspects - Great Plains

Borderlands - Political aspects - Prairie Provinces

Borderlands - Political aspects - Great Plains

Group identity - Prairie Provinces

Group identity - Great Plains

Prairie Provinces Social conditions Congresses

Great Plains Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies, June 2010.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Paradoxes of the Border / Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch -- The Mediated Border. 1 The Borders of Cultural Difference: Canadian Television and Cultural Identity / Serra Tinic ; 2 The Canadian Sitcom and the Fantasy of National Difference: Little Mosque on the Prairie and English-Canadian Identity / Christopher Cwynar ; 3 The Flow of Amusement: The First Year of Moving Pictures in the Red River Valley / Paul Moore -- The Political Border. 4 "Shutting Down the Snake Ranch": Battling Booze at the BC Border, 1910-1493 / Brandon Dimmel ; 5 International and Domestic Pressures on the Governance of the St Mary and Milk Rivers / Michelle Morris ; 6 Water and Political Relations between the Upper Plains States and the Prairie Provinces: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's All Wet / Paul R. Sando -- The Native Border. 7 Border Studies and Indigenous Peoples: Reconsidering Our Approach / Zalfa Feghali ; 8 Navigating the "Erotic Conversion": Transgression



and Sovereignty in Native Literatures of the Northern Plains / Joshua D. Miner ; 9 The Anishnaabeg of Bawating: Indigenous People Look at the Canada-US Border / Phil Bellfy ; Conclusion: Beyond the Paradoxes of the Border / Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch.

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.