Borderlands
Subtitle: How We Talk About Canada (Canadian Studies)
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780774806589
Subjects: Sociology; Cultural Geography; Culture; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology - General; General; Anthropology; Canada; Civil rights & citizenship; Cultural studies; Immigration & emigration; Nationalism; Earth Sciences - Geography
Description: Borderlands traces some of the ways in which border metaphors pervade Canadian consciousness. Addressing a variety of social issues - among them, separatism, marginalization, multiculturalism, colonial attitudes, national policies, language, and the influence of the United States - W. H. New shows how the border, though spatial in character, is political in intent and effect.

Comprising three essays, Borderlands moves from a general survey of the metaphor of the border, to a close examination of the significance of the US border in Canadian cultural history, finishing with a detailed comparison of two literary texts from the Pacific Northwest, each of which is shaped by the border concerns of the culture it represents.