Preface VII
List of Contributors X
Introduction 1
Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta
1
From White Australia to the Asian Century: Literature and Migration in Australia 9
Sneja Gunew and Wenche Ommundsen
2
New Austria, Old Roots: Writers of Immigrant Origin in Austria 43
Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta
3
Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Brazilian Literature: A Fundamental Presence 77
Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida and Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury
4
Encountering Canada: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing 106
Christl Verduyn
5
A Belated Arrival: Flemish Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing 151
Sarah De Mul
6
Somewhere Between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in France 172
Laura Reeck
7
From the Exclusion of Individual Authors to the Transnationalisation of the Literary Field: Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writing in Germany 219
Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta
8
Learning New Languages: A Literature of Migration in Greece 259
Maria Oikonomou
9
The Politics of Changing National Identity: Migration Literature in Italy 288
Marie Orton
10
Challenging the Myth of Homogeneity: Immigrant Writing in Japan 318
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
11
Oscillating between Margin and Centre: Dutch Literature of Migration 355
Liesbeth Minnaard
12
The Faces of a New Transnational Swiss Nation 388
Daniel Rothenbühler, Bettina Spoerri and Martina Kamm
13
From Commonwealth Literature to Black and Asian British Writers: The Long History of Migration and Literature in the United Kingdom 429
Sandra Vlasta and Dave Gunning
14
Immigration and the United States: Immigrant Writing and Ethnic American Literature 463
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Conclusion: How Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers Have Become a Vanguard of Cultural Change: Comparing Historical Developments, Political Changes and Literary Debates in Fifteen National Contexts 499
Wiebke Sievers
Index 519