Battles and Borders : Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas.

Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The Importance of Literature and Cultural Transfer -Redefining Minority and Migrant Cultures -- Part I Borders/Nation/Language, case Denmark/Germany -- Germans making Danes. Germans and the German Language in Copenhagen and the Construction of Danish Culture 1750-1880 -- Language as cultural metaphor: The creation of a national identity in the German-Danish border area -- Part II Cultural Transfer, Language Frontiers, Across Borders -- The Discovery of Finland. Patterns in Cultural Transfer -- Against all odds. Sally Salminen's Katrina and the possibilities of cultural transfer -- Part III Minor Languages and Literary History/Within Borders -- The rise, dispersal and stabilisation of New Norwegian literature -- Towards a Monolingual Canon. Faroese and Danish on the Faroe Islands -- Part IV Literary History/Within Borders/Without Borders -- Anticolonial and Postcolonial De-/Constructions of the Nation Ethnonational Mobilisation in Meänmaa -- Cultural Transmission. Diaspora Writing from the Balkans -- About the Authors -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission series.

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