Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature / Rüdiger Heinze

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Backlist Collection
• VerfasserIn: Heinze, Rüdiger
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2021: Backlist Collection
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations.

In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 1. Introduction: American Children 7 2. Axioms & Methodology 19 3. Children of Immigrants in American Literature 81 4. Conclusion: Truisms, Fallacies, and Complex Contradictions 271 5. Works Cited 277