Migration - Miscegenation - Transculturation - Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century

This study examines short stories written by ethnic and women writers between the 1880s and 1920s and focuses on these stories¿ reflection of changes in the United States, particularly those caused by (im)migration and emancipation movements. Ethnicity and gender are the guiding categories in the analysis of migration, miscegenation, and transculturation in cultural contact zones. This detailed investigation gives voice to a broad spectrum of writers from Native, African-, German-, Jewish-, Chinese-, and Mexican-American backgrounds, ultimately leading to a reconsideration of the canon of American literature. The evolving patterns developed in "Migration ¿ Miscegenation ¿ Transculturation" provide a context for the analysis of ethnicity and gender in Western societies in the twenty-first century.

Summary

This study examines short stories written by ethnic and women writers between the 1880s and 1920s and focuses on these stories' reflection of changes in the United States, particularly those caused by (im)migration and emancipation movements. Ethnicity and gender are the guiding categories in the analysis of migration, miscegenation, and transculturation in cultural contact zones. This detailed investigation gives voice to a broad spectrum of writers from Native, African-, German-, Jewish-, Chinese-, and Mexican-American backgrounds, ultimately leading to a reconsideration of the canon of American literature. The evolving patterns developed in Migration - Miscegenation - Transculturation provide a context for the analysis of ethnicity and gender in Western societies in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Birkle
• Publisher: Universitätsvlg. Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9783825315559
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-1555-9
• No. of pages: 375
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 537 g
• Series: American Studies / A Monograph Series; American Studies / A Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Migration, Literaturinterpretation s.a. Einzelschriftsteller/in, Multikulturelle Gesellschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Kurzgeschichte, Einwanderer, Native Americans, Geschichte 1880-1930, Transculturation, Multikulturelle Gesellschaft (Motiv)