Ethnic subjectivity in intergenerational memory narratives : politics of the untold / Mónika Fodor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fodor, Mónika, author.

Series:

Routledge research in race and ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Storytelling.

Subjectivity--Social aspects.

Subjectivity.

Intergenerational communication--History.

Intergenerational communication.

European Americans--Ethnic identity.

European Americans.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 285 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"In this interdisciplinary study, Mónika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in own stories impact ethnic subjectivity construction. Working with thematically selected life experiences from interviews conducted with second-and later-generation European-Americans, Fodor demonstrates how the storytellers position themselves in a range of social, cultural, and political discourses to claim or disclaim ethnicity as part of their subjectivity. Tying narrative content, structural, and performance analysis to the sociological and sociolinguistic concepts of "symbolic capital" and "investment," Fodor unpacks the changing levels of identifying with one's ancestral ethnic heritage and its potential to carry meaning for later generation descendants. In doing so, she reveals the shared features of identification among individuals through narrative meaning-making, which may be the basis of real or imagined, heterolocal discourse community formation and sustained ethnic subjectivity. The narrative analysis demonstrates how the cohesive force among members of the community is the shared knowledge of story frames and the personalized retelling of these. Ethnic Subjectivity in Intergenerational Memory Narratives draws on inherited, often moving, personal experiences that offers new insights into the so far largely unexplored terrain of the narrative structure of intergenerationally transferred memory retellings, that will be of great interest to students and scholars of ethnic studies, migration and identity studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fodor, Mónika, Ethnic subjectivity in intergenerational memory narratives

ISBN:

9781138489837

1138489832

OCLC:

1120784415