Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers Since 1945

Fourteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36323-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 196, 542 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1001 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This study analyses how immigrant and ethnic-minority writers have challenged the understanding of certain national literatures and have markedly changed them. In other national contexts, ideologies and institutions have contained the challenge these writers pose to national literatures. Case studies of the emergence and recognition of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing come from fourteen national contexts. These include classical immigration countries, such as Canada and the United States, countries where immigration accelerated and entered public debate after World War II, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as countries rarely discussed in this context, such as Brazil and Japan. Finally, this study uses these individual analyses to discuss this writing as an international phenomenon.

Sandra R.G. Almeida, Maria Zilda F. Cury, Sarah De Mul, Sneja Gunew, Dave Gunning, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Martina Kamm, Liesbeth Minnaard, Maria Oikonomou, Wenche Ommundsen, Marie Orton, Laura Reeck, Daniel Rothenbühler, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Wiebke Sievers, Bettina Spoerri, Christl Verduyn, Sandra Vlasta.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sievers, Wiebke

Vlasta, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945: Fourteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond

Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta

1 From White Australia to the Asian Century: Literature and Migration in Australia

Sneja Gunew and Wenche Ommundsen

2 New Austria, Old Roots: Writers of Immigrant Origin in Austria

Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta

3 Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Brazilian Literature: A Fundamental Presence

Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida and Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury

4 Encountering Canada: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing

Christl Verduyn

5 A Belated Arrival: Flemish Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing

Sarah De Mul

6 Somewhere Between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in France

Laura Reeck

7 From the Exclusion of Individual Authors to the Transnationalisation of the Literary Field: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Germany

Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta

8 Learning New Languages: A Literature of Migration in Greece

Maria Oikonomou

9 The Politics of Changing National Identity: Migration Literature in Italy

Marie Orton

10 Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity: Immigrant Writing in Japan

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

11 Oscillating between Margin and Centre: Dutch Literature of Migration

Liesbeth Minnaard

12 The Faces of a New Transnational Swiss Nation

Daniel Rothenbühler, Bettina Spoerri and Martina Kamm

13 From Commonwealth Literature to Black and Asian British Writers: The Long History of Migration and Literature in the United Kingdom

Sandra Vlasta and Dave Gunning

14 Immigration, Migration, and the United States: Immigrant Writing and Ethnic American Literature

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Conclusion: How Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers Have become a Vanguard of Cultural Change: Comparing Historical Developments, Political Changes and Literary Debates in Fifteen National Contexts

Wiebke Sievers

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wiebke Sievers, Ph.D. (2003), University of Warwick, is senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has published widely on migration and culture in various contexts. Most recently she co-edited a special issue of the journal Crossings.

Sandra Vlasta, Dr. (2008), University of Vienna, is currently a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is the author of Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English (Brill Rodopi, 2016) and has also published on multilingualism and travel writing.