Special Sorrows - The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, Jewish Immigrants in

"Jacobson's book impressively lives up to its stark and splendid title, which is borrowed from Polish-Jewish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's capsule description of the bonds uniting people into nations. For the immigrants whom Jacobson considers, nationalist sorrows seemed especially tragic, as they were felt and resisted in exile from the nations whose causes were being championed. Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and, as expertly, details how such movements shaped immigrant life in the United States."—David Roediger, from the Foreword

List of contents

Note on Usage
Foreword by David Roediger
Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination

I. THE CULTURE OF THE DIASPORA
1. Exiles, Pilgrims, Wanderers: Migration in the Context of National Struggle
2. Plaintive Song, Heroic Story: Nationalism and Immigrant Popular Culture
3. Pillars of Fire: The Comparative Literatures of Immigrant Nationalism

II. NATIONALIST SENSIBILITY AND AMERICAN EXPANSIONISM
4. Cuba Libre! Immigrant Versions of Spanish Tyranny, Cuban Rights, and American Power
5. Windows on Imperialism: Nationalism, Race, and the Conquest of the Philippines

Conclusion: The Diasporic Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Afterword to the 2002 Edition
Glossary of Names
Notes
Index

About the author

Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies at Yale University and author of Whiteness of a Different Color (1998) and Barbarian Virtues (2000).

Summary

Suitable for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the 'huddled masses' of the world look with longing.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jacobson Matthew Frye, David Roediger
• Assisted by: David R. Roediger (Foreword), Roediger David R. (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2002
• EAN: 9780520233423
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23342-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Physical anthropology, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General