Ethnic Subjectivity in Intergenerational Memory Narratives Politics of the Untold / M©đnika Fodor.

Author/creator Fodor, M©đnika
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Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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SeriesRoutledge research in race and ethnicity
Contents Conceptualizing Ethnic Subjectivity in Personal and Intergenerational Memory Narratives -- "I Just Feel Unique" Construction of the Ethnic Self in Personal and Intergenerational Memory Narratives -- "My Style of Being Ethnic." Assimilation Experiences Retold in Intergenerational Memory Narratives -- "History Got in the Way." Constructing a Sense of History in Intergenerational Memory Narratives -- "At Home There" Sites of Ethnic Subjectivity Construction in Intergenerational Memory Narratives -- Ethnography of an Imagined Discourse Community in Personal and Intergenerational Memory Narratives.
Abstract "In this interdisciplinary study, M©đnika 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.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Fodor, M©đnika. Ethnic Subjectivity in Intergenerational Memory Narratives New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9781138489837
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