Migrant Letters: Emotional Language, Mobile Identities, and Writing Practices in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138560192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 206 str.

Marcelo J. Borges; Sonia Cancian

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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