Beyond the Nation? : : Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures / / Alexander Freund.

• VerfasserIn: Freund, Alexander,
• MitwirkendeR: Boelkow, Kerstin,; Burke, Myka,; Fair, Ross D.,; Farges, Patrick,; Freund, Alexander,; Harzig, Christiane,; Hoerder, Dirk,; Liebscher, Grit,; Lorenzkowski, Barbara,; Maeder, Pascal,; Meune, Manuel,; Sauer, Angelika,; Schulze, Mathias,; Werner, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender --; 1. Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life Courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks --; 2. Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from across the Borders --; Part II. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics, and Culture --; 3. Success through Persistence: The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5 --; 4. Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 --; 5. Germania in Canada - Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 --; 6. A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation, and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-84 --; Part III. Twentieth Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism --; 7. German-Quebecers, 'German-Québécois,' German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec in the 1990s --; 8. 'What Church Do You Go To?' The Difficult Acculturation of German- Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004 --; 9. 'German Only in Their Hearts': Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the Twentieth Century --; 10. Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Postwar Canada --; Part IV. Language and Literature --; 11. Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo --; 12. Reimagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442694866
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442694866
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alexander Freund.

Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration - including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig - detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Other topics explored include literary constructions of German-Canadian identity, analyses of language use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies.