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1 online resource (ix, 291 pages.) |
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| Series |
Media and Cultural Memory = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung,
1613-8961 ; Volume 25
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Media and cultural memory ; 25.
1613-8961
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| Thesis |
Dissertation Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2017. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements / Assmann, Corinna -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Family Matters in Contemporary British Migration Literature -- 2. Family Practices and Cultures of Relatedness -- 3. Uncovering Family History: The Intergenerational Construction of Identity through Family Memory -- 4. Family Secrets and Religious Conflict in the Muslim Diaspora -- 5. Family Memoirs: Relational Life Writing -- 6. Four Topoi of 'Doing Family': Food, Home, Photography, and the Body -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Summary |
Due to the large-scale global transformations of the 20th century, migration literature has become a vibrant genre over the last decades. In these novels, issues of transcultural identity and belonging naturally feature prominently. This study takes a closer look at the ways in which the idea of family informs processes of identity construction. It explores changing roles and meanings of the diasporic family as well as intergenerational family relations in a migration setting in order to identify the specific challenges, problems, and possibilities that arise in this context. This book builds on insights from different fields of family research (e.g. sociology, psychology, communication studies, memory studies) to provide a conceptual framework for the investigation of synchronic and diachronic family constellations and connections. The approach developed in this study not only sheds new light on contemporary British migration literature but can also prove fruitful for analyses of families in literature more generally. By highlighting the relevance and multifaceted nature of doing family, this study also offers new perspectives for transcultural memory studies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families in literature.
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Families in literature. |
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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| Added Author |
Walter de Gruyter & Co.
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| Added Title |
Doing family in 2nd generation British migration literature |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 3110601796 9783110601794 |
| ISBN |
3110605082 (electronic bk) |
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9783110605082 (electronic book) |
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3110601796 |
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9783110601794 |
| Standard No. |
99978944528 |
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