Battles and Borders

• Verlag: Barkhuis
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9789492444417
• Thema: Letteratura
• Thema: Critica letteraria

Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas is about literature on the fringes of Europe. The authors all discuss the often unique ways in which literary history and cultural transfer function in peripheral and central regions against the background of shifting national borders in the last two centuries. Special attention is paid to minority and migrant groups in Northwest Europe. The present volume aims to prompt a reconsideration of the concepts of 'minority' and 'migrant' cultures and literatures in the past and the present day. It also suggests a new topic for further study: the importance of cultural transfer for migrant groups (whether or not they form a diaspora) and their ability to create new words and to develop new identities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Table of contents
• Preface
• The Importance of Literature and Cultural Transfer –Redefining Minority and Migrant Cultures
• Part I Borders/Nation/Language, case Denmark/Germany
• Part II Cultural Transfer, Language Frontiers, Across Borders
• Part III Minor Languages and Literary History/Within Borders
• Part IV Literary History/Within Borders/Without Borders
• About the Authors
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission series