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Battles and borders : perspectives on cultural transmission and literature in minor language areas
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- Creator
- edited by Petra Broomans (chief editor), Goffe Jensma, Ester Jiresch, Janke Klok and Roald van Elswijk
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Groningen : Barkhuis, 2015
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9789491431791, 949143179X, 9492444410, 9789492444417
- OCLC
- on1030339385
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
- 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; Germans making Danes. Germans and the German Language in Copenhagen and the Construction of Danish Culture 1750-1880; Language as cultural metaphor: The creation of a national identity in the German-Danish border area; Part II Cultural Transfer, Language Frontiers, Across Borders; The Discovery of Finland. Patterns in Cultural Transfer
- Against all odds. Sally Salminen's Katrina and the possibilities of cultural transferPart III Minor Languages and Literary History/Within Borders; The rise, dispersal and stabilisation of New Norwegian literature; Towards a Monolingual Canon. Faroese and Danish on the Faroe Islands; Part IV Literary History/Within Borders/Without Borders; Anticolonial and Postcolonial De-/Constructions of the Nation Ethnonational Mobilisation in Meänmaa; Cultural Transmission. Diaspora Writing from the Balkans; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index
Subjects
- Germanic literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Germanic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Finnish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Finnish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Balkan literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- European literature -- Minority authors.
- Linguistic minorities -- Europe.
- Language and culture -- Europe.
- Culture diffusion -- Europe.