Letters Across Borders The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

• Main Authors: Elliot, B, Gerber, D, Sinke, S
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2006
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Age; Class; Congresses; Correspondence; Emigration and immigration; Ethnicity; Gender; History; Immigrants; Meaning; Migrants; Nationality

This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new ap...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Limits and Opportunities -- 1 How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case -- 2 The Limits of the Australian Emigrant Letter -- 3 Marriage through the Mail: North American Correspondence Marriage from Early Print to the Web -- Part II: Writing Conventions and Practices -- 4 Irish Emigration and the Art of Letter-Writing -- 5 "Every Person Like a Letter": The Importance of Correspondence in Lithuanian Immigrant Life -- 6 Epistolary Communication between Migrant Workers and their Families -- Part III: Silences and Censorship -- 7 Epistolary Masquerades: Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters -- 8 Reading and Writing across the Borders of Dictatorship: Self-Censorship and Emigrant Experience in Nazi and Stalinist Europe -- Part IV: Editorial Interventions -- 9 "Going into Print": Published Immigrant Letters, Webs of Personal Relations, and the Emergence of the Welsh Public Sphere -- 10 As if at a Public Meeting: Polish American Readers, Writers, and Editors of Ameryka-Echo, 1922-1969 -- Part V: Negotiations of Identity -- 11 Negotiating Space, Time, and Identity: The Hutton-Pellett Letters and a British Child's Wartime Evacuation to Canada -- 12 The Ukrainian Government-in-Exile's Postal Network and the Construction of National Identity -- Part VI: Letters and the State -- 13 Immigrant Petition Letters in Early Modern Saxony -- 14 "To His Excellency the Sovereign of all Russian Subjects in Canada": Emigrant Correspondence with Russian Consulates in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax, 1899-1922 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z