Beyond the nation? : immigrants' local lives in transnational cultures /
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 us...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender
- Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks / Dirk Hoerder
- Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders / Christiane Harzig
- Part II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture
- Success through persistence : The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5 / Kerstin Boelkow
- Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 / Ross D. Fair
- Germania in Canada ? Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 / Barbara Lorenzkowski
- A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884 / Angelika E. Sauer
- Part III: 20th Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism
- German-Quebecers, "German-Québécois", German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec in the 1990s / Manuel Meune
- 'What Church do you go to?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004 / Patrick Farges
- 'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the 20th Century / Hans Werner
- Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada / Pascal Maeder
- Part IV: Language and Literature
- Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo / Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze
- Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence / Myka Burke.