Trieste and Louis Adamic's Transnational Identities
In: Two Homelands, Heft 51
Abstract
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.
Verlag
The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts / Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (ZRC SAZU)
ISSN: 1581-1212
DOI
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