Anna Brzozowskaâ kraj

Ethnoculture in the Diaspora - Between Regionalism and Americanisation

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Produktbeschreibung

Anna Brzozowska-Krajkaâ s Ethnoculture in the Diaspora: Between Regionalism and Americanisation is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of the functioning of Polish immigrantsâ folk culture in the context of American multiculturalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 225mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9788322793671
• ISBN-10: 8322793677
• Artikelnr.: 60744635

Autorenporträt

Anna Brzozowska-Krajka

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I.
Betwixt-and-Between
: Diasporic Experience in Macroperspective 1. Diaspora as an analytical category: in the realm of operational concepts 2. From Rev. Wac
aw Kruszka to Karen Majewski: the culture of American Polonia in scholarly discourse: tendencies, priorities, inadequacies II.
Betwixt-and-Between
: Diasporic Experience in Microperspective 1. Regionalism as a specific form of religion: the Tatra highlander paradigm and its American variant 2. The Polish Tatra highlanders in America: reproduction of source culture 3. Spatial distance to the roots: continuity or transformation? 4. Metropolitan identity v. regional identity in the diaspora 5. Being and community: Polonian memoir poetry 6.
We for ours
: Polonian memoir advertisements 7. Nationality and ethnicity in Polonian writings (the case of The Tatra Eagle) 8. The Tatra highlander theater in America: auto-communication or expression of ethnicity 9. Between ethnic folklore and American pop culture: the Polish style of Eddie Blazonczyk
s polkas 10. Christmas in diaspora and American political correctness Conclusion: regionalism v. ethno-images in diaspora Bibliography