TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maren Dingfelder-Stone
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Boer, Burgher, Businessman: Dutch-American Images in the United States
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1103044
N2  - The study is an imagological analysis of Dutch immigrants in the United States, giving insights into stereotyping, identity formation, and the marketing of ethnicity. Tracing Dutch-American literary images through four centuries of writing in America, the study emphasizes the continuity of Dutch-American history. The assessment of images in their socio-cultural context reveals the disparity between literary and socio-cultural perception, the latter of which often evokes Dutch ethnicity in the United States as a mere means to an end. While the study ascertains which images of Dutch Americans have dominated public perception, it also investigates the origins of such images, their persistence irrespective of time and location, and the reasons for their fluctuating interpretations.
KW  - Niederländischer Einwanderer (Motiv), Stereotyp, USA, Literatur, Kulturelle Identität (Motiv), Geschichte, Imagologie, Identitätskonstrukt, Amerikanische Literatur
LA  - English
ER  -