Trieste and Louis Adamic’s Transnational Identities

Dve Domovini

John Paul Enyeart¹ 

[1] Bucknell University, 067 Coleman Hall, Department of History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 17837;

关键词: adamic;    diaspora;    anti-colonialism;    tito;    transnational activism;   

DOI  :  10.3986/dd.2020.1.03

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

By examining Slovene immigrant to the United States and world-renowned author Louis Adamic’s effort to mediate between his Yugoslav and American identities, this article helps us to think what having a transnational identity means. By focusing on Adamic’s writings about Trieste and Italy in general, the article shows how he transitioned from being a disaporic leader during World War II to an anti-colonialist from 1946–1951. Examining Adamic’s activist stances regarding Trieste helps us to think about transnationalism beyond a single cross-border movement or an individual’s identity claim at a specific moment. Adamic’s effort to convince the U.S. government that Yugoslavia should control Trieste allows us to see how transnationalism operated as an identity in flux.

【 授权许可】

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