Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US

Connected Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Stéphanie Prévost, Bénédicte Deschamps, Stéphanie Prévost, Bénédicte Deschamps

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781350107045
• eBook ISBN: 9781350107069
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced.

This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day.

Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence.

This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Charts and Tables
• List of Contributors
• General Introduction – Print Media in a Foreign Language across the Atlantic: Common Grounds, Diverging Approaches
• Section One Journalism Without Borders: Wandering Titles and Transnational Journalistic Networks
• 1 The Hebrew ‘Wandering Press’ in Europe: Ha-Levanon from Jerusalem to Paris, Mainz and London (1863–86)
• 2 A Transnational Radical Print Culture: French-Language Anarchist Periodicals between London, Paris and the United States before 1914
• 3 Collaborating across the Atlantic: Gigi Damiani and the Italian Anarchist Press in the United States (1909–45)
• Section Two Community Building and Transculturation: Allocating Foreign-Language Communities’ Needs
• 4 French-Language Almanacs in the United States, from the Eighteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Genres, Social Dimensions and Transcultural Adaptations
• 5 ‘A modest sentinel for German interests in England’: The Anglo-German Press in the Long Nineteenth Century
• 6 The Soul of the Colony: Origins and Cultural Imaginary of the Portuguese-Language Press in the United States (1877–2019)
• 7 ‘Spotlight on Jim Crow’: Radical Slovak and Polish Immigrant Newspapers in Solidarity with Black Civil Rights
• 8 Manufacturing Identities of Poles in the UK in Polish-Language Online Media Following the Brexit Campaign
• Section Three Betwixt Local Politics and the Home Country’s Politics: Extraterritorial Media Staging of Political Conflicts
• 9 Betwixt Spain and England: The Spanish Liberals’ Spanish-Language Media Strategies in London (1810–50)
• 10 The Megali Idea in New York’s Greek-Language Press (1915–22): Doing Greek Politics from a Distance?
• 11 Barzini Overseas: The Corriere d’America, from Promoting Italianità to Fascist Propaganda
• Section Four Monolingualism, Plurilingualism and Rivalling Languages: Language Choice and Identity Framing
• 12 Why French? The Multiple Uses of French-Language Periodicals in London (UK) and Sydney (Australia) during the Nineteenth Century and Beyond
• 13 Revolutionizing Women’s Roles in the Late Nineteenth-Century US-Based Spanish-Language Press
• 14 Divergency in Russian Emigré Publishing in Late Victorian Britain: The Case of the Narodovolets and The Anglo-Russian
• 15 Le Haïasdan, L’Arménie, Armenia and Hnchʻak: Language Choice and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Armenian Diasporic Identity in London and Paris (1888–1905)
• 16 The Power of the Transnational Native Tongue in Exile: Belgian Refugees during the First World War, Their Exile Press and Their Fragmented Identity
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright