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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... past was irretrievably lost , or if it could still be used in their complicated identities of " twoness . " In the ... past . " Even though she is a third - generation American , the old country and her family past are implanted in ...
... past was irretrievably lost , or if it could still be used in their complicated identities of " twoness . " In the ... past . " Even though she is a third - generation American , the old country and her family past are implanted in ...
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... past , not a jour- ney west into the future . In his study The Journey Narrative in American Lit- erature ( 1983 ) James P. Stout argues that American stories about travels tend to combine an ideal movement in place and time with a ...
... past , not a jour- ney west into the future . In his study The Journey Narrative in American Lit- erature ( 1983 ) James P. Stout argues that American stories about travels tend to combine an ideal movement in place and time with a ...
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... past . His desire to write was no doubt prompted by a sense of " the essential wholeness of life , " and not of a radical break between the old- and the new - world self . To shape his own past and remind his readers of theirs , he ...
... past . His desire to write was no doubt prompted by a sense of " the essential wholeness of life , " and not of a radical break between the old- and the new - world self . To shape his own past and remind his readers of theirs , he ...
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