Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US

Editeur : Bloomsbury
Parution : 2023-10-10 10:38:20
Nombre de pages : 360

Publication | Table des matières | Critiques

Résumé

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced.

This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day.

Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence.

This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Table des matières

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction – Print Media in a Foreign Tongue Across the Atlantic: Common Grounds, Diverging Approaches, Bénédicte Deschamps and Stéphanie Prévost (both of Paris Cité University, France)
Part I – Journalism without Borders
1. The Hebrew ‘Wandering Press’ in Europe: The Lebanon from Jerusalem to Paris, Mainz and London (1863-1886), Gideon Kouts (University of Paris 8, France)
2. A Transnational Radical Print Culture: Anarchist Periodicals Between London, Paris and the US Before 1914, Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK)
3. Collaborating from Across the Atlantic: Gigi Damiani and the Italian Anarchist Press in the US (1909-1953), Isabelle Felici (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier 3, France)

Part II – Community Building and Transculturation
4. French-Language Almanacs in the United States from the 19th to the early 20th Century: Social and Transcultural Dimensions, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarland University, Germany)
5. The Anglo-German Press in the Long Nineteenth Century, Susan Reed (The British Library, UK)
6. Origins and Cultural Imaginary of the 19th-Century Portuguese Press in the US, Alberto Pena Rodríguez (The University of Vigo, Spain)
7. Spotlight on Jim Crow: Radical Slovak and Polish Immigrant Newspapers in Solidarity with the Black Civil Rights Movement, Robert Zecker (Saint Francis Xavier University, Canada)
8. Contested Identities of Poles in the UK in Polish-Language Online Media Following Brexit, Katarzyna Molek Kozakowska (University of Opole, Poland)
Part III – Betwixt Local Politics and the Home Country’s Politics
9. Betwixt Spain and England: Spanish Liberals’ Spanish-Language Mediatic Strategies in London (1810-1850), María José Ruiz Acosta (University of Poland, Spain)
10. Debating the Great Idea in Manhattan: The New York Greek-Language Press and the Eastern Question on the Eve of the Lausanne Treaty (1919-1922), Nicolas Pitsos (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France)
11. Barzini Overseas: Il Corriere d’America Between Promoting ‘Italianità’ and Fascist Propaganda, Lorenzo Benadusi (Roma Tre University, Italy)

Part IV: Monolingualism, Plurilingualism and Rivaling Languages
12. The Multiple Roles of French-Language Periodicals in London and Sydney during the 19th Century, Valentina Gosetti (University of New England, Australia)
13. Revolution and Latinidad in US-Based Spanish-Language Press the Late 19th Century, Kelley Kreitz (Pace University, USA)
14. Divergency in Russian Emigré Publishing in Late Victorian Britain: The Case of the Narodovolets and The Anglo-Russian, Robert Henderson (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
15. Language Choice and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Armenian Diasporic Identity in London and Paris: Le Haiasdan, L’Arménie and Armenia & Hnch’ak (1888-1905), Stéphanie Prévost (Paris Diderot University- Paris 7, France)
16. Belgian Refugees during the First World War, their Exile Press and Fragmented Identity, Christophe Declercq (University College London, UK)

Critiques

  • “This important volume from an authoritative international team of authors sheds significant new light on the comparative development of post-war Conservatism in the western world.”
    – Stuart Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK
  • “The rich essays collected in this illuminating volume show that the rise of right-wing politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France since the 1970s was a remarkably transnational phenomenon. As they attacked social democracy and cultural pluralism, right-wing movements borrowed ideas, visions, vocabularies, and tactics from each other, adapting them to their own national idioms and using advances in one country to win advances elsewhere. Anyone interested in confronting the problems that have proliferated in the wake the right’s reconfiguration of politics – surging inequality, belligerent ethno-nationalism, worker disempowerment and insecurity, and lost faith in the capacity for democratic self-government – has much to learn about the origins of these problems from this important book.”
    – Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University, USA, author of Collision Course