Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration

By: Donna R. Gabaccia

Book Overview

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration--they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085396
• ISBN13: 9780252085390
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"