Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.

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Patricia Simpson is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Professor of German Studies at Montana State University, Bozeman, USA.

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Book Title: Reimagining the European Family
Book Subtitle: Cultures of Immigration
Authors: Patricia Anne Simpson
Series Title: Studies in European Culture and History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371843
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37183-6Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47585-8Published: 18 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37184-3Published: 18 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-6274
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 189
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Family, European Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Film History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration

Defining the “German” Family in the European Context: Men at Work

Elective Affinities: Motherhood and Families Without Borders

Russian German Immigration and Imagined Families

Japanese German Kinships: Imagining Postwar Masculinity

Immigration Nations: Comedy and the New Family

Conclusion Postfamilial Europe?

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