Immigrant and ethnic-minority writers since 1945 : : fourteen national contexts in Europe and beyond / / edited by Wiebke Sievers, Sandra Vlasta.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sievers, Wiebke.; Vlasta, Sandra.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill / Rodopi,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 196.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (554 pages).
• Notes: The 14 chapters cover Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Preface --; /; From White Australia to the Asian Century: Literature and Migration in Australia /; New Austria, Old Roots: Writers of Immigrant Origin in Austria /; Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Brazilian Literature: A Fundamental Presence /; Encountering Canada: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing /; A Belated Arrival: Flemish Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing /; Somewhere between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in France /; From the Exclusion of Individual Authors to the Transnationalisation of the Literary Field: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Germany /; Learning New Languages: A Literature of Migration in Greece /; The Politics of Changing National Identity: Migration Literature in Italy /; Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity: Immigrant Writing in Japan /; Oscillating between Margin and Centre: Dutch Literature of Migration /; The Faces of a New Transnational Swiss Nation /; From Commonwealth Literature to Black and Asian British Writers: The Long History of Migration and Literature in the United Kingdom /; Immigration and the United States: Immigrant Writing and Ethnic American Literature /; How Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers Have Become a Vanguard of Cultural Change: Comparing Historical Developments, Political Changes and Literary Debates in Fifteen National Contexts /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004363246
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Wiebke Sievers, Sandra Vlasta.

This study analyses how immigrant and ethnic-minority writers have challenged the understanding of certain national literatures and have markedly changed these. 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 became an issue 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. Sandra R.G. Almeida, Maria Zilda F. Cury, Sarah De Mul, Sneja Gunew, Dave Gunning, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Martina Kamm, Liesbeth Minnaard, Maria Oikonomou, Wenche Ommundsen, Marie Orton, Laura Reeck, Daniel Rothenbühler, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Wiebke Sievers, Bettina Spoerri, Christl Verduyn, Sandra Vlasta.