Introduction

Ethnic Subjectivity Construction in Intergenerational Memory Narratives: The Politics of the Untold is a research monograph based on the findings of an interview-based narrative study aiming to reveal how second- or late-generation European Americans factor their ethnic ancestry into their subjectivity. Mónika Fodor argues that ethnic subjectivity decisions are constructed discursively in intergenerational memory narratives. In the Introduction, the author explains the aims and the outline of the book, the goals of the research, and the methods of collecting qualitative data. The research data come from unstructured, qualitative interviews with seventeen participants. The book has six chapters: one section presents the methodology and key concepts used in the narrative analysis, and five chapters present the analysis of thematically arranged personal narratives. The chapters are the following: 1) methodology and fundamental concepts of the research, 2) self-construction, 3) views of assimilation, 4) sense of history, 5) sites of ethnic subjectivity construction, 6) traditions.