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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Migration and Modernities : The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850
- Ort / Verlag
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- [2022]
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- Link zu anderen Inhalten
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Recovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. These essays together traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.Key FeaturesOffers a comparative framework for understanding the modern history of migration and the aesthetics of mobilityForegrounds interdisciplinary debates about belonging, rights, and citizenshipDemonstrates how mobility unsettles the national, cultural, racialized, and gendered frames we often use to organize literary and historical studyBrings together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the emergence of modernityEmphasizes the globalism of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781474440363DOI: 10.1515/9781474440363Titel-ID: 99371332572406441
- Format
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Schlagworte
- American literature / History and criticism / 18th century, American literature / History and criticism / 19th century, American literature / 18th century / History and criticism, American literature / 19th century / History and criticism, Colonization in literature, Emigration and immigration in literature, English literature / History and criticism / 18th century, English literature / History and criticism / 19th century, English literature / 18th century / History and criticism, English literature / 19th century / History and criticism, Immigrants in literature, Literary Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century