West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative 9780773554399

Table of contents :
Cover
WEST/BORDER/ROAD
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 WEST 1 Courage and Restraint in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Western Trilogy
2 WEST 2 Stampeding Together, Sundance Style, in Aritha van Herk’s (New) West
3 BORDER 1 Post-9/11 Anxiety on the Small Screen in CBC’s Intelligence and The Border
4 BORDER 2 The Edge of America in Border Songs, Frozen River, and Canada
5 ROAD 1 Where the River Meets the Sea: The Politics of Memory in Quebec Road Narrative
6 ROAD 2 Updating the Canadian Road Movie with Hollywood Canucks
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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