Canada Through American Eyes

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.

Introduction: Laying the Groundwork: Canada s (In)visibility. - 1. The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye s Peaceable Kingdom. - 2.
Evangeline s
Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer s Post-9/11
Evangeline: A Novel
. - 3. German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P. S. Duffy s
The Cartographer of No Man s Land
. -

4. Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley s
The Tricking of Freya
. - 5. Playing The Odds: Fleeing to Canada in Stewart O Nan s Novel. - 6. Turning Away, Going South and West: The Receding Promise of Canada in Future Home of the Living God and The Underground Railroad. - 7. The Limits of Canadian Exceptionalism:
Bowling for Columbine
,
Come From Away
, and
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
.