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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... Rønning's narrative the cultural city center is not a Scandinavian city , it is Boston , where he stops on his way to Telemark " to test my American- ism ” ( 11 ) . A walk in the city is important because , as a student of American ...
... Rønning's narrative the cultural city center is not a Scandinavian city , it is Boston , where he stops on his way to Telemark " to test my American- ism ” ( 11 ) . A walk in the city is important because , as a student of American ...
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... Rønning had no second thoughts about assimilation . It was after all an assimilation into a double literary land- scape , both Norwegian and American . Interestingly , Rønning must have found Zane Grey's version of the West in The ...
... Rønning had no second thoughts about assimilation . It was after all an assimilation into a double literary land- scape , both Norwegian and American . Interestingly , Rønning must have found Zane Grey's version of the West in The ...
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... Rønning's ideas . This controversy with Rølvaag deserves a few comments . Rølvaag may agree with Rønning that the language in which they write is of lesser impor- tance , but he takes Rønning to task for questioning whether Norwegian ...
... Rønning's ideas . This controversy with Rølvaag deserves a few comments . Rølvaag may agree with Rønning that the language in which they write is of lesser impor- tance , but he takes Rønning to task for questioning whether Norwegian ...
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