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Comparative North American Studies SELECTION OF EARLIER BOOKS BY REINGARD M. NISCHIK The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature (2014) Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood (2009) History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian (2008) The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations (2007) New York Fiction (2000) Comparative North American Studies Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture Reingard M. Nischik COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES Copyright © Reingard M. Nischik 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-56422-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The author has asserted their right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. ISBN: 978-1-349-55669-4 E-PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–55965–4 DOI: 10.1057/9781137559654 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nischik, Reingard M. Comparative north american studies : transnational approaches to american and canadian literature and culture / Reingard M. Nischik. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Short stories, Canadian—History and criticism. 2. Short stories, American—History and criticism. 3. Comparative literature—Canadian and American. 4. Comparative literature—American and Canadian. 5. National characteristics, Canadian, in literature. 6. National characteristics, American, in literature. 7. Modernism (Literature)— Canada. 8. Modernism (Literature)—United States. 9. Transnationalism in literature. 10. Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939– —Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR9192.52.N57 2015 813(cid:2).0109971—dc23 2015020046 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. T he scenery in the United States was much the same as that of the countryside we had just come from, but it was indeed a different place, as the flags were different. I remembered what Jeremiah told me about borders, and how easy it was to cross them. Margaret Atwood, A lias Grace , 341 Permissions An earlier version of a part of chapter 2 (mainly the comparative analysis of Sherwood Anderson and Raymond Knister’s short fi ction) was fi rst printed in Cultural Cir- culation: Dialogues between Canada and the American South, ed. Waldemar Zacha- rasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher © 2013 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. All rights reserved. An earlier version of the analysis of Atwood’s comics “Survivalwoman Meets Super- ham,” “Survivalwoman and the Canadian Dream,” and “Th e LongPen” (which is part of chapter 4) was fi rst published in Chapter 7 in Reingard M. Nischik, Engendering Genre: Th e Works of Margaret Atwood © 2009 by University of Ottawa Press. All rights reserved. “Blind Assa” comic © 2001 by Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved. Epigraph from Alias Grace © 1996 by Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved. “Fearless Survivalstudents” comic © 2015 by Hanna Seitz. All rights reserved. “Light Bulb” comic © 1975 by Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved. “Reviewing Atwood in North America” comic © 2015 by Hanna Seitz. All rights reserved. “Th e Kanadian Film Directors’ Guild” comic © 1975 by Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved. Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts 7 2 Modernism in the United States and Canada: The Example of Poetry and of the Short Story 27 3 Border Studies, Borderlines, and Liminal Spaces: Crossing the Canada-US Border in North American Border Narratives 61 4 On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood’s Works 93 5 Reviewing Atwood in Canada and the United States: From (Inter)Nationalism to Transnationalism 121 6 “The Writer, the Reader, and the Book”: Margaret Atwood on Reviewing in Conversation with Reingard M. Nischik 179 Notes 191 Selective Bibliography: Comparative North American Studies and Its Contexts 227 Works Cited 237 Index 257 Figures 4.1 “The Kanadian Film Directors’ Guild” comic (1975) 115 4.2 “Light Bulb” comic (1975) 117 5.1 “Blind Assa” comic (2001) 162 5.2 “Fearless Survivalstudents” comic (2015) 170 5.3 “Reviewing Atwood in North America” cartoon (2015) 177
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