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Tales of Transit - Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950 (Paperback)
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Tales of Transit - Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950 (Paperback)
Series: American Studies
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Tales of Transit brings together advances from the fields of
transportation and social history, translation studies and literary
scholarship to cast new light on the great transatlantic migration
movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth
century. For a long time, these movements have been studied from
the perspective of the sending and receiving societies, while not
much research was devoted to what happens in between. The
contributions in this collection move these in-between places to
center stage by focusing attention on immigrants' liminal
experiences on board steamers and in exit ports on both sides of
the Atlantic. Drawing on a variety of archival sources as well as
travel writings, fiction, and memoir literature by first-, second-
and even third-generation immigrants, Tales of Transit highlights
how transatlantic migration during the period 1850-1950 was seldom
a straightforward, one-way movement. The viewpoints represented in
this volume go against the stereotype of the migrants as huddled
masses and shows them actively engaging in complex rituals of
engagement and disengagement.
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