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Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States

Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States

Dingfelder-Stone, Maren
Von Bardeleben, Renate

Paperback

Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, Book 52

English as a Second LanguageLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631560362
ISBN13: 9783631560365
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 1 2007
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketing of ethnicity. Tracing Dutch-American literary images through four centuries of writing in America, the study emphasizes the continuity of Dutch-American history. The assessment of images in their socio-cultural context reveals the disparity between literary and socio-cultural perception, the latter of which often evokes Dutch ethnicity in the United States as a mere means to an end. While the study ascertains which images of Dutch Americans have dominated public perception, it also investigates the origins of such images, their persistence irrespective of time and location, and the reasons for their fluctuating interpretations.

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