In this Book
German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss
Co-published with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. In German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, more than forty international contributors describe and discuss aspects of the history, language, and culture of these migrant groups, individuals, and their descendants. Part I focuses on identity, with essays exploring the connections among language, politics, and the construction of histories—national, familial, and personal—in German-speaking diasporic communities around the world. Part II deals with migration, examining such issues as German migrants in postwar Britain, German refugees and forced migration, and the immigrant as a fictional character, among others. Part III examines the idea of loss in diasporic experience with essays on nationalization, language change or loss, and the reshaping of cultural identity.
Essays are revised versions of papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Waterloo in August 2006, organized by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, and reflect the multidisciplinarity and the global perspective of this field of study.
Table of Contents
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
The Speckled People
1 Diaspora Experiences: German Immigrants and Their Descendants
I: Identity
2 Language and Identity in the German Diaspora
3 Language and the Negotiation of Identities among German-speaking Diasporic Communities in Central Europe
4 German-speaking Swiss in Australia: Typical Swiss, Model Immigrants, or a Sonderfall Abroad?
5 Migration, Language Use, and Identity: German in Melbourne, Australia, since World War II
6 Language and Identity: The German-speaking People of Paarl
7 Canadian German: Identity in Language
8 “Memories from Afar”: Aspects of Memories Spanning Several Generations in Families of Austrian Jewish Refugees
9 Pulitzer, Preetorius, and the German American Identity Project of the Westliche Post in St. Louis
10 “We dont want Kiser to rool in Ontario”: Franco-Prussian War, German Unification, and World War I as Reflected in the Canadian Berliner Journal (1859–1918)
11 The Politics of Diaspora: Russian German Émigré Activists in Interwar Germany
12 Creating Transcultural Space: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Arts in Chicago, from the 1890s to the 1950s
13 The German Democratic Republic and the Citizens of German Origin in Canada: The Role of the Gesellschaft Neue Heimat, 1980–1990
II: Migration
14 Moving beyond Hyphenated German Culture: Establishing a Research Agenda for Expatriate and Heritage German Literary Studies
15 Some Facts and Figures on German-speaking Exiles in Ireland, 1933–1945
16 Conversion as a “Two-edged Sword”: Evangelicalism among Pittsburgh’s German Immigrants
17 The Diasporic Moment: Elise von Koerber, Dr. Otto Hahn, and the Attempt to Create a German Diaspora in Canada
18 German Migrants in Postwar Britain: Immigration Policy, Recruitment, and Reception
19 Immigration of German-speaking People to the Territory of Modern-day Turkey (1850–1918)
20 Associating or Quarrelling? Migration, Acculturation, and Transmission among Social-democratic Sudeten Germans in Canada
21 Sudeten German Refugees in Canada and the Forced Migration of Germans in Postwar Central and Eastern Europe
22 Language Attrition among Germans Living in the Netherlands
23 Der Onkel aus Amerika: The German Emigrant as a Figure of Speech and Fictional Character
24 “Ich will nach Amerika, mir eine neue Heimat suchen”: The Emigration of Expellees in Post-1945 West German Film
25 German Diaspora Experiences in British Columbia after 1945
26 The German Language in the South Seas: Language Contact and the Influence of Language Politics and Language Attitudes
27 Migration, Gender, and Storytelling: How Gender Shapes the Experiences and the Narrative Patterns in Biographical Interviews
28 The Domestication of Radical Ideas and Colonial Spaces: The Case of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
III: Loss
29 Reasons and Conditions of Population Transfer: The Expulsion of Germans from East and Central Europe and Their Integration in Germany and Abroad after World War II
30 Emigration and Wiedergutmachung : The Social History of Jewish Entrepreneurs from Frankfurt,1933–1963
31 Dissolving the German Diaspora in Poland: A Different Approach
32 Suffering in a Province of Asia: The Russian German Diaspora in Kazakhstan
33 The Nationalization Campaign and the Rewriting of History: The Case of Blumenau
34 Pennsylvania German in Kansas: Language Change or Loss?
35 Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph: Negotiating the Past in Huntsville
36 Brave or Naive? Memory Work and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Gertrud Mackprang Baer’s In the Shadow of Silence
37 A German Post-1945 Diaspora? German Migrants’ Encounters with the Nazi Past
38 Di Brandt’s Writing Breaks Canadian Mennonite Silence and Reshapes Cultural Identity
39 Use It or Lose It? Language Use, Language Attitudes, and Language Proficiency among German Speakers in Vancouver
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
| ISBN | 9781554581313 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9781554580279 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 456138614 |
| Pages | 540 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
Copyright
2008
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