Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity : Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Guests and Immigrants: The Historical and Political Background	12
	Foreign Labor from 1864 to the Present: A Historical Overview	13
	Conclusion	34
2	The Social Background	35
	Living Conditions	36
	Household Structure and Income	38
	Education	39
	Employment Opportunities	42
	Auslanderfeindlichkeit	45
	Conclusion	50
3	From Pidgindeutsch to Standard German: The Linguistic Situation	51
	Structural Features of Foreign Worker German	52
	Varieties of Foreign Worker German	58
	Is Pidgindeutsch a Pidgin?	64
	Overlapping Systems: Pidgins, Creoles, Interlanguages, and Xenolects	69
	Recent Changes in Gastarbeiterlinguistik	84
	Intended Meaning and Prepositional Usage	86
	Gastarbeiterdeutsch and the Determination of Ethnic Identity	90
4	Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity	94
	A Brief History of Literary Activity in the Immigrant Community	95
	Common Themes of Immigrant Literature	101
	Negotiating Labels	105
	The Role of Language in the Negotiation of Ethnic and Social Identity	108
	The Developmental Nature of Foreign Worker Literature	124
	Literature as Capital: National and Intellectual Forces in the Negotiation of Identity	132
	Notes	139
	Bibliography	153
	Index	165