Maris R. Thompson

Narratives of Immigration and Language Loss

Lessons from the German American Midwest

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines narratives of anti-German sentiment and language loss from German American communities in southwestern Illinois. The narratives and sociolinguistic practices illustrate the multiple ways that family members responded to periods of anti-German sentiment and constructed a past that gives coherence and meaning to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781498533829
• ISBN-10: 1498533825
• Artikelnr.: 57577088

Autorenporträt

By Maris R. Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Something We Weren't Supposed to Know or Hear Chapter One:
Recovering Immigration History and the Role of Narrative Chapter Two:
Contexts of German Immigration, German Schooling and Anti-German Sentiment
Chapter Three: Origin Stories: Chronicles of Family Genesis, Citizenship
and Belonging Chapter Four: Narrating Americanization, Anti-German
Sentiment and Language LossChapter Five: "It's not like an old family
affair": Narratives of New Immigrants and New Immigration Chapter Six:
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Making Sense of Americanization Stories