Title Letters across borders : the epistolary practices of international migrants / edited by Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber, and Suzanne M. Sinke

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, published in association with the Carleton Centre for the History of Migration, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction / Bruce S. Elliott, David A. Gerber, and Suzanne M. Sinke -- Part One: Limits and Opportunities -- How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case / Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner -- The Limits of the Australian Emigrant Letter / Eric Richards -- Marriage through the Mail: North American Correspondence Marriage from Early Print To the Web / Suzanne Sinke -- Part Two: Writing Conventions and Practices -- Irish Emigration and the Art of Letter-Writing / David Fitzpatrick -- The Importance of Correspondence in Lithuanian Immigrant Life / Daiva Markelis -- Espistolary Communication between Migrant Workers and Their Families / Miguel Angel Vargas -- Part Three: Silences and Censorship -- Epistolary Masquerades: Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters / David A. Gerber -- Reading and Writing across the Borders of Dictatorship: Self-censorship and Emigrant Experience in Nazi and Stalinist Europe / Ann Goldberg -- Part Four: Editorial Interventions -- Polish-American Letters to the Editors of Ameryka-Echo, 1922-1969 / Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann -- Immigrant Letters in the Periodical Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Wales / William Jones -- Part Five: Negotiations of Identity -- Negotiating Space, Time, and Identity: The Hutton-Pellett Letters and a British Child's Wartime Evacuation to Canada / Helen Brown -- The Ukranian Government-in-Exile's Postal Network and the Construction of National Identity / Karen Lemiski -- Part Six: Letters and the State -- Immigrant Petition Letters in Early Modern Saxony / Alexander Schunka -- Emigrant Correspondence with Russian Consulates in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax, 1899-1922 / Vadim Kukushkin Summary In this collection, the editors seek to address 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 approaches to their interpretation Notes Includes papers presented at the international conference, "Reading the Emigrant Letter: Innovative Approaches and Interpretations," sponsored by the Carleton Centre for the History of Migration and hosted at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 2003 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses Immigrants -- Correspondence -- Congresses SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. History. Form Electronic book Author Elliott, Bruce S. Gerber, David A., 1944- Sinke, Suzanne M. Carleton University. Carleton Centre for the History of Migration. ISBN 1403971013 9781403971012 9780230601079 1281360821 9781281360823 9781349532636 0230601073 1349532630

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