David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory – Edinburgh University Press, February 2024

Explores the Canada–US border through a variety of theoretical, cultural and literary approaches

• Includes chapters discussing the work of Wayde Compton
• Includes chapters discussing Native American Literature and Border Theory
• Features case studies of the Detroit River and Twin Towns along the Canada–US and Mexico–US Borders
• Includes an afterword by Victor Konrad
• Presents a chronology of events at the Canada-US Border

Moving beyond border studies paradigms dominated by the Mexico–US border, this collection aims to contextualise cultures and communities within a wider global understanding of border thinking. It builds on recent considerations of, and changes to, the cultural life of (and across) the Canada–US border, to prioritise theoretical reflections on representations, identities and policies. Approaching the border as a place, a theory, a practice and a process, this collection draws attention to the ways in which aspects of the Canada–US border itself (re)frame discussions of the borderlands as sites that continue to evoke, invoke and provoke ideas of nation and post nationalism; negotiation and imposition; resistance and refusal.