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The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined: Studies of World Migrations

Autor Mary H. Blewett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2009
Mary H. Blewett offers a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909–94). Smith's depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth-century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate. As Smith's writings reveal, emigration involves grief and anger, and he meant for his rich panoply of characters to convey the superiority of Yorkshire life and culture. Smith came to take pride in his writings and, to a degree, accepted his new life in America. He never returned to Yorkshire. 
Adopting a transnational perspective, Blewett links Smith's Briardale to empirical data on the substance of working-class lives both in Yorkshire and in New England's worsted textile industries. Demonstrating clearly that English immigrants often resisted and sometimes refused assimilation into American society, The Yankee Yorkshireman offers a deepened understanding of migration, ethnicity, gender, and class as both lived and imagined experiences in a transnational culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252076138
ISBN-10: 0252076133
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 5 photographs; 3 line drawings; 3 maps; 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Studies of World Migrations


Recenzii

"[A] fascinating biography."--American Historical Review
 
 
"Deserves to be read by all scholars and students interested in migration and dislocation."--Journal of American Ethnic History

"In a stimulating way, Blewett interweaves labor, community, technology, gender, and sexuality in a story of the textile industry in a local, regional, British, and Atlantic context. A truly significant contribution."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium

Notă biografică

Mary H. Blewett is a professor emerita of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the author of Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England and Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780–1910.

Cuprins

Preface   xi
Introduction   1
1. A Region of Movement and Change, 1650-1923   17
2. Migrations of Capital, Industry, and People, 1891-1922   51
3. Working, Writing, Loving, Enduring, 1923-1994   97
4. Transatlantic Perspectives, Strong Women, and Sexual Politics in Fiction   126
Conclusion: The Inner World of Emigration and Migration   153
Notes   161
Hedley Smith's Published and Unpublished Works   191
Index   193

Descriere

Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England