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Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature
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Abstract In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While the... view more
In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.... view less
Keywords
literature; United States of America; migration; literature (discipline); immigration
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
US-America; 2nd Generation Immigrants; Children of Immigrants; America; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
297 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 22
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839440452
ISBN
978-3-8394-4045-2
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0