Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries — from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration — including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig — detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.

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 use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies.

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Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries — from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration — including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig — detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.

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 use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies.

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Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures

Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures

by Alexander Freund
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Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures

Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures

by Alexander Freund

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Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries — from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration — including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig — detail these German-Canadians' experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.

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 use among these immigrants, and aspects of their lives that can be interpreted as transcultural and gendered. Transcending the master narrative of immigration as nation building, Beyond the Nation? charts a new course for immigration studies.

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ISBN-13: 9781442694873
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Alexander Freund is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Alexander Freund

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: 18th and 19th Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture

The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-1775
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
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: Literature and Language

Language Use and 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

What People are Saying About This

Manfred Prokop

‘This collection sets the standard against which future scholarship on German-Canadians’ transnational experiences will be measured. Featuring contributions from the current leaders in the field, Beyond the Nation? addresses a wide range of central themes using the highest standards of academic rigour. Anyone interested in German-Canadian matters will want this often riveting, immensely readable, and at times moving book for ready reference and enjoyable browsing.’

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