Visualizing the Canada-US Border: Comic Adaptations of Wayde Compton’s “The Blue Road” and Thomas King’s “Borders”

Authors

  • Gillian Roberts University of Nottingham

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Published

2024-05-21

How to Cite

Roberts, G. (2024). Visualizing the Canada-US Border: Comic Adaptations of Wayde Compton’s “The Blue Road” and Thomas King’s “Borders”. Studies in Canadian Literature, 48(1), 131–151. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34170