Migrant Letters (eBook, ePUB)

Emotional Language, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective
Redaktion: Borges, Marcelo J.; Cancian, Sonia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A historical exploration of the connection between the practice of letter writing and the emotional, economic, familial, and gendered experiences of men and women separated by migration. It was originally published as a special issue of The History of Family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351361583
• Artikelnr.: 57967030

Autorenporträt

Marcelo J. Borges is Professor of History at Dickinson College, PA, USA, where he teaches Latin American history and migration history. He has published on migration, labor, and migrant letters. He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese migration to Argentina in transatlantic perspective. Sonia Cancian is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at University College, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. She is the author of numerous publications on migration, gender, emotions, and migrant correspondence, including Families, lovers and their letters: Italian postwar migration to Canada (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Reconsidering the migrant letter: from the experience of
migrants to the language of migrants 1. Moving backward and moving on:
nostalgia, significant others, and social reintegration in
nineteenth-century British immigrant personal correspondence 2 'I never
could forget my darling mother': the language of recollection in a corpus
of female Irish emigrant correspondence 3. Adjusting and fulfilling
masculine roles: the epistolary persona in Dutch transatlantic letters 4.
'If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar': money matters
among migrants and their families 5. For the good of the family: migratory
strategies and affective language in Portuguese migrant letters,
1870s-1920s 6. Settler colonialism and migrant letters: the Forbes family
and letter-writing in South Africa 1850-1922 7. Shared letters: writing and
reading practices in the correspondence of migrant families in northern
Spain 8. The transnational life and letters of the Venegas family, 1920s to
1950s