Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

“…14 For the distinction between borderlands and borderlines see Anzaldúa 1987;New 1998. 15 For detailed readings of border-crossing processes in Silko, see Sadowski-Smith 2008;Sarkowsky 2007; in King see Davidson, Walton, and Andrews 2003;Andrews and Walton 2006;Gruber 2007. 16 This and other passages as well as many texts by Indigenous authors raise not only the question of the nation but also of citizenship (see, for instance, Denis 1997Denis , 2002Fleischmann et al 2011;Jaimes 1992;Sarkowsky 2012;and ch.…”

“…21 Although the US population is almost ten times larger than that of Canada (308.7 million [Census 2010; US Census Bureau] vs. 33.5 million [Census 2011;Statistics Canada]), there are probably more Canadians doing research on the United States than the other way around, 22 which also affects hemispheric and border studies by US American (and Americanist) scholars. In fact, the relatively few pertinent publications that do include Canada in this context tend to be by non-Americans, particularly by German-language scholars or scholars now working in the United States or Canada who originate from Canadophile Germany (see Siemerling 2005 andSiemerling andCasteel 2010a;Sadowski-Smith 2005;Gruber 2008a; cf. also von Flotow and Nischik 2007).…”

Canadian literature as an American literature : CanLit through the lens of hemispheric American literary studies

“…in Braz 2010: 131). In addition, Canada's cultural and linguistic similarity and geographic proximity to the United States means that it is not considered to be different enough to be thought of as a separate entity to its southern neighbour (see Sadowski-Smith and Fox 2004). To use Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau's frequently referenced and picturesque metaphor to describe Canadian-American relations: if you are a mouse sleeping next to an elephant, you risk being unseen by someone standing in the doorway of your bedroom -especially if you are sleeping on the wrong side of the bed; however, just as it is hard to see Canada from Latin America, it is difficult to see Latin America from Canada.…”

Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador

“…As part of another speech delivered to the 2007 delegates, he asserted, “The Pacific Ocean that surrounds us and that washes along our beaches stretches also to the shores of Okinawa and the Philippines. We are united through these waters … through the movement of these waters.” Like theorists of what Lynn Stephen, Matt Gutmann, Sandya Shukla, and Heidi Tinsman have begun to call “las Américas” (as a way of describing the dense and long‐standing interweavings of North and South America), the self‐consciously transnational framing of the facility was intended to foster recognition of the connections between seemingly unrelated parts of the globe—places that are increasingly united either through the kind of environmental damage repeatedly wrought by U.S. Air Force solvents or by the shared currents of the Pacific (Fine‐Dare and Rubinstein 2009; Guttman et al 2003; Sadowski‐Smith and Fox 2004; Shukla and Tinsman 2007; Stephen 2008).…”