The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined Contributor(s): Blewett, Mary H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252076133 ISBN-13: 9780252076138 Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2009 Annotation: Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England Click for more in this series: Studies of World Migrations |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2008038365 |
Series: Studies of World Migrations |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.80 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Mary H. Blewett offers a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909-94). Smith's depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth-century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate. As Smith's writings reveal, emigration involves grief and anger, and he meant for his rich panoply of characters to convey the superiority of Yorkshire life and culture. Smith came to take pride in his writings and, to a degree, accepted his new life in America. He never returned to Yorkshire. Adopting a transnational perspective, Blewett links Smith's Briardale to empirical data on the substance of working-class lives both in Yorkshire and in New England's worsted textile industries. Demonstrating clearly that English immigrants often resisted and sometimes refused assimilation into American society, The Yankee Yorkshireman offers a deepened understanding of migration, ethnicity, gender, and class as both lived and imagined experiences in a transnational culture. |
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