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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790725903321

Autore

Simpson P

Titolo

Reimagining the European Family [[electronic resource] ] : Cultures of Immigration / / by P. Simpson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-47585-8

1-137-37184-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Studies in European Culture and History

Disciplina

306.850943

Soggetti

Culture

Culture—Study and teaching

Families

Families—Social aspects

Ethnology—Europe

Ethnicity

Motion pictures—History

Sociology of Culture

Cultural and Media Studies, general

Family

European Culture

Ethnicity Studies

Film History

Germany Emigration and immigration

European Union countries Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration; One Defining the "German" Family in the European Context: Men at Work; Two Elective Affinities: Motherhood and Families Without Borders; Three Russian German Immigration and Imagined Families; Four Japanese German Kinships: Imagining Postwar Masculinity; Five



Immigration Nations: Comedy and the New Family; Conclusion Postfamilial Europe?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.