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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... become strangers ; strangers to those we left , and strangers to those we came to . The Fatherland to which we had centuries of inherited rights , we have given away , and we of the first generation can never get another . Let me repeat ...
... become strangers ; strangers to those we left , and strangers to those we came to . The Fatherland to which we had centuries of inherited rights , we have given away , and we of the first generation can never get another . Let me repeat ...
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... becoming " victorious " : her son may sometime become an American pastor , an impossible dream “ if I had remained in Norway . Such miracles do not happen there " ( 413 ) . Her transformation is complete , she is not sent away , she ...
... becoming " victorious " : her son may sometime become an American pastor , an impossible dream “ if I had remained in Norway . Such miracles do not happen there " ( 413 ) . Her transformation is complete , she is not sent away , she ...
Síða 209
... become a universal metaphor , cut off from the actual experience of being an immigrant . Skard concludes , therefore , that Rølvaag remains within an ethnic context but is , at the same time , lifted out of it to take on a somewhat ...
... become a universal metaphor , cut off from the actual experience of being an immigrant . Skard concludes , therefore , that Rølvaag remains within an ethnic context but is , at the same time , lifted out of it to take on a somewhat ...
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