Letters across Borders The Epistolary

In this collection, the editors seek to address the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation.

Bruce S. Elliott is Professor of History, Carleton University. David A. Gerber is Professor of History, University of Buffalo (SUNY). Suzanne M. Sinke is Associate Professor of History, Florida State University.

List of Illustrations

v

List of Tables

vi

Notes on Contributors

vii

Introduction

1

(28)

Bruce S. Elliott

David A. Gerber

Suzanne M. Sinke

Part I Limits and Opportunities

How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case

29

(27)

Wolfgang Helbich

Walter D. Kamphoefner

The Limits of the Australian Emigrant Letter

56

(19)

Eric Richards

Marriage through the Mail: North American Correspondence Marriage from Early Print to the Web

75

(22)

Suzanne M. Sinke

Part II Writing Conventions and Practices

Irish Emigration and the Art of Letter-Writing

97

(10)

David Fitzpatrick

``Every Person Like a Letter'': The Importance of Correspondence in Lithuanian Immigrant Life

107

(17)

Daiva Markelis

Epistolary Communication between Migrant Workers and their Families

124

(17)

Miguel Angel Vargas

Part III Silences and Censorship

Epistolary Masquerades: Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters

141

(17)

David A. Gerber

Reading and Writing across the Borders of Dictatorship: Self-Censorship and Emigrant Experience in Nazi and Stalinist Europe

158

(17)

Ann Goldberg

Part IV Editorial Interventions

``Going into Print'': Published Immigrant Letters, Webs of Personal Relations, and the Emergence of the Welsh Public Sphere

175

(25)

William D. Jones

As if at a Public Meeting: Polish American Readers, Writers, and Editors of Ameryka-Echo, 1922--1969

200

(23)

Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann

Part V Negotiations of Identity

Negotiating Space, Time, and Identity: The Hutton-Pellett Letters and a British Child's Wartime Evacuation to Canada

223

(25)

Helen Brown

The Ukrainian Government-in-Exile's Postal Network and the Construction of National Identity

248

(23)

Karen Lemiski

Part VI Letters and the State

Immigrant Petition Letters in Early Modern Saxony

271

(20)

Alexander Schunka

``To His Excellency the Sovereign of all Russian Subjects in Canada'': Emigrant Correspondence with Russian Consulates in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax, 1899--1922

291

(15)

Vadim Kukushkin

Index

306

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Letters across Borders The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

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