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Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950 (American Studies) - Softcover

 
9789089645289: Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950 (American Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9089645284 ISBN 13: 9789089645289
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Tales of Transit brings together advances from the fields of transportation and social history, translation studies and literary scholarship to cast new light on the great transatlantic migration movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. For a long time, these movements have been studied from the perspective of the sending and receiving societies, while not much research was devoted to what happens in between. The contributions in this collection move these in-between places to center stage by focusing attention on immigrants' liminal experiences on board steamers and in exit ports on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on a variety of archival sources as well as travel writings, fiction, and memoir literature by first-, second- and even third-generation immigrants, Tales of Transit highlights how transatlantic migration during the period 1850-1950 was seldom a straightforward, one-way movement. The viewpoints represented in this volume go against the stereotype of the migrants as huddled masses and shows them actively engaging in complex rituals of engagement and disengagement.

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About the Author

Michael Boyden is Assistant Professor of American Culture at Ghent University College, Belgium Hans Krabbendam is assistant director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and author of Vrijheid in het verschiet. Nederlandse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1920.

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Meestal benaderen onderzoekers migratiebewegingen vanuit het perspectief van het land van herkomst en/of het gastland, zonder veel oog te hebben voor wat er zich tussen het vertrekpunt en de eindbestemming afspeelt. De bijdragen in deze bundel over de trans-Atlantische migratiebewegingen tussen 1850 en 1950 stellen echter juist de tussenhaltes in het migratieproces centraal.

'Tales of Transit' bundelt recente inzichten van historici en literatuurwetenschappers uit de Verenigde Staten en Europa. Op basis van een brede waaier aan archiefmateriaal, reisverhalen, fictie, en herinneringen van eerste-, tweede- en zelfs derde-generatiemigranten, toont 'Tales of Transit' aan hoe de trans-Atlantische migratie tussen 1850 en 1950 nooit zomaar een vanzelfsprekend eenrichtingsverkeer was.

- Michael Boyden is doctorassistent aan de Hogeschool Gent, waar hij Amerikaanse cultuurgeschiedenis doceert.
- Hans Krabbendam is adjunct-directeur van het Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg en auteur van Vrijheid in het verschiet. Nederlandse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1920.
- Liselotte Vandenbussche is postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan de Hogeschool Gent/Universiteit Gent en auteur van 'Het veld der verbeelding. Vrijzinnige vrouwen in Vlaamse literaire en algemeen-culturele tijdschriften (1870-1914)' (2008)

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Tales of Transit brings together advances from the fields of transportation and social history, translation studies and literary scholarship to cast new light on the great transatlantic migration movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. For a long time, these movements have been studied from the perspective of the sending and receiving societies, while not much research was devoted to what happens in between. The contributions in this collection move these in-between places to center stage by focusing attention on immigrants' liminal experiences on board steamers and in exit ports on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on a variety of archival sources as well as travel writings, fiction, and memoir literature by first-, second- and even third-generation immigrants, Tales of Transit highlights how transatlantic migration during the period 1850-1950 was seldom a straightforward, one-way movement. The viewpoints represented in this volume go against the stereotype of the migrants as huddled masses and shows them actively engaging in complex rituals of engagement and disengagement.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9089645284
ISBN 13 
9789089645289
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244
Editor
Boyden Michael, Krabbendam Hans, Vandenbussche Liselotte