Twofold Identities: Norwegian-American Contributions to Midwestern LiteraturePeter Lang, 2004 - 240 síður Twofold Identities is a study of Midwestern American literature as well as of Norwegian-American immigrant texts. Many readers have judged the latter to be a mere reflection of immigrant experience, a judgment that is neither fair nor correct. These American writers were forced to confront an essentially modern experience complicated by the contextual duality of bilingualism. For early Midwestern immigrant writers and their readers, the task of homemaking in a new setting was a philosophically challenging and highly problematic endeavor. These Midwestern writers were not lost, divided, nor rootless. They had the unique privileged ability to draw on the resources of two worlds. As writers they enjoyed - and helped to strengthen - twofold identities. |
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... Norway to the Upper Midwest in large numbers , few writers in Norway wrote with an immigrant reader in mind and few saw the possibilities of the large American market that emigration from Norway had provided . But for a short period of ...
... Norway to the Upper Midwest in large numbers , few writers in Norway wrote with an immigrant reader in mind and few saw the possibilities of the large American market that emigration from Norway had provided . But for a short period of ...
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... Norway and employed local correspondents in Norway , among them Torbjørg ( 1856-1924 ) and John Lie ( 1846-1916 ) . From the 1880s this couple provided news from their part of Norway to readers of Decorah - Posten . John Lie was a ...
... Norway and employed local correspondents in Norway , among them Torbjørg ( 1856-1924 ) and John Lie ( 1846-1916 ) . From the 1880s this couple provided news from their part of Norway to readers of Decorah - Posten . John Lie was a ...
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... Norway . Sometimes she used the pages of Decorah - Posten to help families search for relatives in a very direct way : " I have been asked by an old widow ... if any- body knows her daughter Signe ... She longs to hear from her daughter ...
... Norway . Sometimes she used the pages of Decorah - Posten to help families search for relatives in a very direct way : " I have been asked by an old widow ... if any- body knows her daughter Signe ... She longs to hear from her daughter ...
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Twofold Identities: Norwegian-American Contributions to Midwestern Literature Øyvind Tveitereid Gulliksen Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2004 |
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