Immigrant and ethnic-minority writers since 1945: fourteen national contexts in Europe and beyond

"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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sievers, Wiebke (HerausgeberIn), Vlasta, Sandra (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill / Rodopi [2018]
Schriftenreihe:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Volume 196
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Zusammenfassung:"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" ...
Beschreibung:The 14 chapters cover Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 542 Seiten
ISBN:9789004363236