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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... child the notorious epithet . To her the child's second name , his American name , is indicative of the frontier myth of progress and prosperity and has nothing to do with the wisdom of her Lutheran catechism . Hence she speaks her ...
... child the notorious epithet . To her the child's second name , his American name , is indicative of the frontier myth of progress and prosperity and has nothing to do with the wisdom of her Lutheran catechism . Hence she speaks her ...
Síða 165
... child was born , and we all thought she wouldn't survive - or him , either . That's why we had to baptize him at once . In my heedless joy , after the worst was over and things had turned out all right , I went and gave him that second ...
... child was born , and we all thought she wouldn't survive - or him , either . That's why we had to baptize him at once . In my heedless joy , after the worst was over and things had turned out all right , I went and gave him that second ...
Síða 169
... child , too . ... Don't forget that the God of our fathers watches over us ! ' she added , admonishingly " ( 84 ) . Peder's problem is that he represents the modern secular mind , not only in his attitudes to the rainmaking fraud , but ...
... child , too . ... Don't forget that the God of our fathers watches over us ! ' she added , admonishingly " ( 84 ) . Peder's problem is that he represents the modern secular mind , not only in his attitudes to the rainmaking fraud , but ...
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