What is it about?
A study of expatriate Canadian illustrators and their contribution to American popular culture, and simultaneous erasure in Canadian memory, compared to illustrators who remained in or returned to Canada.
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Why is it important?
Most Canadian scholarship has historically been from a nationalist point of view, while continentalist perspectives have been lacking since the 1930s.
Perspectives
Effective disowning of expat Canadians has weakened rather than strengthened Canadian identity.
Jaleen Grove
Rhode Island School of Design
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This page is a summary of: Bending Before the Storm: Continentalism in the Visual Culture of Canadian Magazines, Journal of Borderlands Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1222876.
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