Format:
VIII, 305 S.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
1442642785
,
9781442642782
Content:
"Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration -- including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig -- detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories
Content:
Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Other topics explored include literary constructions of German-Canadian identity, analyses of language use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies."--pub. desc
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and GenderLocal, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks / Dirk Hoerder -- Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders / Christiane Harzig -- Part II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture -- Success through persistence : The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5 / Kerstin Boelkow -- Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 / Ross D. Fair -- Germania in Canada ? Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 / Barbara Lorenzkowski -- A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884 / Angelika E. Sauer -- Part III: 20th Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism -- German-Quebecers, "German-Québécois", German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec in the 1990s / Manuel Meune -- 'What Church do you go to?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004 / Patrick Farges -- 'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the 20th Century / Hans Werner -- Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada / Pascal Maeder -- Part IV: Language and Literature -- Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo / Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze -- Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence / Myka Burke.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Kanada
;
Deutsche
;
Soziale Situation
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