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A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingBiography, Descent, and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging: Biography, Descent, and Slovenization:... [This chapter explores interactive processes of identity and memory formation, writing, and the constitution of ethnic boundaries among descendants of Slovenian migrants in Argentina through literature. The analysis employs instrumentalist and situational approaches of identity to examine ethnic renewal processes in migration contexts. The central hypothesis emphasizes that literature facilitates identity and memory construction among generations of immigrants who have neither identified themselves with Slovenianess nor forged and sustained a long-term bond with Slovenian communities in Argentina. The argument posits that for descendants, their narrative constructions of the past play a crucial role within the context of migration, allowing continued dislocations of individual and social identities. Writing and publishing biographies have become part of a process of reconfiguring personal identities and framing social memories, values, and their belonging. Creating new affiliations to imagined communities, biographical literature diversifies Argentina from within.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Literary Anthropology of Migration and BelongingBiography, Descent, and Slovenization: Literature and Slovenian Migrants in Argentina

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Fagerlid, Cicilie; Tisdel, Michelle A.
Molek, Nadia
A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging — Jan 31, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-34795-6
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10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3_5
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Abstract

[This chapter explores interactive processes of identity and memory formation, writing, and the constitution of ethnic boundaries among descendants of Slovenian migrants in Argentina through literature. The analysis employs instrumentalist and situational approaches of identity to examine ethnic renewal processes in migration contexts. The central hypothesis emphasizes that literature facilitates identity and memory construction among generations of immigrants who have neither identified themselves with Slovenianess nor forged and sustained a long-term bond with Slovenian communities in Argentina. The argument posits that for descendants, their narrative constructions of the past play a crucial role within the context of migration, allowing continued dislocations of individual and social identities. Writing and publishing biographies have become part of a process of reconfiguring personal identities and framing social memories, values, and their belonging. Creating new affiliations to imagined communities, biographical literature diversifies Argentina from within.]

Published: Jan 31, 2020

Keywords: Literature; Ethnic identity processes; Memory construction; Slovenians; Argentina

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