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Canada Through American Eyes

Literature and Canadian Exceptionalism

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Authors:
  1. Jennifer Andrews

    1. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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  • Examines the historical roots of Canadian exceptionalism

  • Probes the perception of Canada as a place of refuge and challenges that perception

  • Extends border studies, hemispheric, and transnational studies

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction: Laying the Groundwork: Canada’s (In)visibility

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 27-51

  4. Evangeline’s Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer’s Post-9/11 Evangeline: A Novel

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 53-82

  5. German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 83-107

  6. Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 109-139

  7. Escaping to Canada: Gambling on Northern Salvation in Stewart O’Nan’s The Odds

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 141-172

  8. Turning Away, Going West and South: The Receding Promise of Canada in Future Home of the Living God and The Underground Railroad

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 173-197

  9. The Limits of Canadian Exceptionalism: Bowling for Columbine, Come From Away, and Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up

    • Jennifer Andrews
    Pages 199-228

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 229-238
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About this book

This book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present. The novels — and occasionally paintings, films, and musicals — that are the subject of the book provide a deliberately varied set of case studies to probe how US texts, along with works of art produced on both sides of the Canada-US border, uncover moments in Canadian historical and literary studies that have been buried or occluded to protect Canada's self-representation as an exceptional nation. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Jennifer Andrews

About the author

Jennifer Andrews is the dean, Faculty of Arts and Social sciences, and a professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. 

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