Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. The Speckled People ix
4. Diaspora Experiences xiii
5. Identity
6. Language and Identity in the German Diaspora 3
7. Language and the Negotiation of Identities among German-speaking Diasporic Communities in Central Europe 21
8. German-speaking Swiss in Australia 35
9. Migration, Language Use, and Identity 47
10. Language and Identity 61
11. Canadian German 73
12. “Memories from Afar” 83
13. Pulitzer, Preetorius, and the German American Identity Project of the Westliche Post in St. Louis 95
14. “We dont want Kiser to rool in Ontario” 107
15. The Politics of Diaspora 117
16. Creating Transcultural Space 131
17. The German Democratic Republic and the Citizens of German Origin in Canada: 145
18. Migration
19. Moving beyond Hyphenated German Culture 161
20. Some Facts and Figures on German-speaking Exiles in Ireland, 1933–1945 181
21. Conversion as a “Two-edged Sword”: Evangelicalism among Pittsburgh’s German Immigrants 193
22. The Diasporic Moment 205
23. German Migrants in Postwar Britain 217
24. Immigration of German-speaking People to the Territory of Modern-day Turkey (1850–1918) 231
25. Associating or Quarrelling? 245
26. Sudeten German Refugees in Canada and the Forced Migration of Germans in Postwar Central and Eastern Europe 259
27. Language Attrition among Germans Living in the Netherlands 271
28. Der Onkel aus Amerika: The German Emigrant as a Figure of Speech and Fictional Character 281
29. “Ich will nach Amerika, mir eine neue Heimat suchen”^* 293
30. German Diaspora Experiences in British Columbia after 1945 305
31. The German Language in the South Seas 317
32. Migration, Gender, and Storytelling 331
33. The Domestication of Radical Ideas and Colonial Spaces 345
34. Loss
35. Reasons and Conditions of Population Transfer 359
36. Emigration and Wiedergutmachung 379
37. Dissolving the German Diaspora in Poland 391
38. Suffering in a Province of Asia 405
39. The Nationalization Campaign and the Rewriting of History 419
40. Pennsylvania German in Kansas 431
41. Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph Negotiating the Past in Huntsville 443
42. Brave or Naive? 455
43. A German Post-1945 Diaspora? 467
44. Di Brandt’s Writing Breaks Canadian Mennonite Silence and Reshapes Cultural Identity 479
45. Use It or Lose It? 491
46. Contributors 503
47. Index 511