Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences

by: Omotayo O. Banjo (Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 1st ed. 2021

Publication Date: 2021/9/28

Language: English

Print Length: 351 pages

ISBN-10: 3030753107

ISBN-13: 9783030753108

Book Description

This anthology examines how immigrants and their US-bo children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like). Where this work diverges from other collections and monographs is the area is its intentional focus on how both first- and second-generation Americans’ complex identities and hybrid cultures interact with mediated narratives in general, alongside the extent to which these narratives reflect their experience. In a three-part structure, the collection examines representations, “zooms in” to explore the reception of these narratives through autoethnographic essays, and concludes in a section of analysis and critique of specific media.

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This anthology examines how immigrants and their US-bo children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like). Where this work diverges from other collections and monographs is the area is its intentional focus on how both first- and second-generation Americans’ complex identities and hybrid cultures interact with mediated narratives in general, alongside the extent to which these narratives reflect their experience. In a three-part structure, the collection examines representations, “zooms in” to explore the reception of these narratives through autoethnographic essays, and concludes in a section of analysis and critique of specific media.