"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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Other Authors:	Sievers, Wiebke (Editor), Vlasta, Sandra (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston Brill / Rodopi [2018]
Series:	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Volume 196
Subjects:	Geschichte 1945-2018 Literature > Minority authors > History and criticism Immigrants' writings > History and criticism Ethnicity in literature Emigration and immigration in literature Multiculturalism in literature Nationalliteratur Minderheitenliteratur Migrantenliteratur Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	"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" ...
Item Description:	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
Physical Description:	xi, 542 Seiten
ISBN:	9789004363236