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Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0886293170
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters written by Daisy L. Neijmann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about cultural identity and human experience of the "new."

From Iceland to the Americas

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526128772
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book From Iceland to the Americas written by Tim William Machan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.

The Viking Immigrants

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442663014
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Viking Immigrants written by Laurie K Bertram and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

Icelandic Heritage in North America

Author : Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 177284022X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Heritage in North America written by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.

Writings by Western Icelandic Women

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887550355
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Writings by Western Icelandic Women written by and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, occupied since before the arrival of the Vikings. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelandic immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, and still maintaining strong ties to their mother country. While the prominent role of women in the development of Western Iceland has long been acknowledged, there is little recognition of their contribution to its literary life.This collection of short stories and poems spans 75 years of writings. It includes translated work by little-known authors such as Undina - "a modest poet," as well as works in English by prominent writers such as Laura Goodman Salverson, twice a winner of the Governor-General's Award. From the hopefulness of the early immigration in the 1870s to the conflict of assimilation in the 1950s, the pieces reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.Writings by Western Icelandic Women includes many works translated for the first time from their original Icelandic, and rescues from obscurity the voices and experiences of women as they struggled in a new country. It offers insight into the many obstacles, both personal and professional, that faced these pioneering writers. An introduction by Kirsten Wolf provides a literary and historical context, and is complemented by photographs and brief author biographies.

Adjacencies

Author : Domenic A. Beneventi
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 1550711679
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Adjacencies written by Domenic A. Beneventi and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a forum in which Canadian ethnicity and literature are explored from a broad range of perspectives. It reveals the many ways in which minority writers not only create a sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities.

Kristjana Gunnars

Author : Monique Tschofen
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781550712001
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Kristjana Gunnars written by Monique Tschofen and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The writings collected here all testify to the complexity of Gunnars's literary vision as much as they testify to the sheer pleasures of reading her work. In her interview, Gunnars speaks both as a reader and a writer, describing the form and modes of address of her work, as well as the philosophical and literary traditions she draws from. The nine essays and two poems that follow, organized chronologically according to the publication dates of the primary texts they treat, represent a broad range of approaches to Kristjana Gunnars's work. The contributers are M. Travis Lane, Judith Owens, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Deidre Lynch, Stephen Scobie, Anne Malena, Siobhan O'Flynn, K.I. Press, and Christl Verduyn. It is my hope that readers will find in this 'critical community' some productive points of entry into Gunnars's corpus that will stimulate their own thinking about her words and ideas" - from the Introduction by Monique Tschofen.

Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature

Author : Conny Steenman-Marcusse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490965
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature written by Conny Steenman-Marcusse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.

The Literary History of Alberta Volume One

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642967
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume One written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.

Bridges Between Worlds

Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190625031
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Bridges Between Worlds written by Corinne G. Dempsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping track: a glossary of characters -- Bridging worlds with Andleg Mál -- Roots and layers of Andleg Mál -- Science and skepticism, belief and blasphemy -- Skyggnigáfa: the gift that keeps on giving -- Trance work -- Healers and healing -- Leaps of geography and faith

A History of Icelandic Literature

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803233469
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Icelandic Literature by : Daisy L. Neijmann

Download or read book A History of Icelandic Literature written by Daisy L. Neijmann and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.

North American Icelandic

Author : Birna Arnbjornsdottir
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887559980
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book North American Icelandic written by Birna Arnbjornsdottir and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.

Literary Pluralities

Author : Christl Verduyn
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551112039
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Literary Pluralities written by Christl Verduyn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1998-12-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Pluralities is a collection of essays on the connections between literature and society in Canada, focusing on the topics of race, ethnicity, language, and cultures. The essays explore a nexus of related issues, including the dynamics between race, ethnicity, class, gender and generation; Canadian multiculturalism, and its meaning within Aboriginal and Quebec communities; the politics of language; the new field of life writing; and international dimensions of the debates. Together, they present a valuable picture of Canadian and Quebecois cultural and literary criticism at the century’s end. Contributors include: Himani Bannerji, George Elliott Clarke, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Hiromi Goto, Sneja Gunew, Jean Jonaissant, Smaro Kamboureli, Eva Karpinski, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Myrna Kostash, Lucie Lequin, Nadine Ltaif, Arun Mukherjee, Enoch Padolsky, Nourbese Philip, Joseph Pivato, Armand G. Ruffo, Tamara Palmer Seiler, Drew Hayden Taylor, Aritha van Herk, Maïr Verthuy, and Christl Verduyn. This is a co-publication of Broadview Press and the Journal of Canadian Studies.

Icelanders in North America

Author : Jonas Thor
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553257
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Icelanders in North America written by Jonas Thor and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2002-11-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as New Iceland, Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland. Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.

Northern Myths, Modern Identities

Author : Simon Halink
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398430
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Northern Myths, Modern Identities written by Simon Halink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities. Contributors are: Tim van Gerven, Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Simon Halink, Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson, Otto S. Knottnerus, Joep Leerssen, Daisy Neijmann, Han Nijdam, Robert A. Saunders, Katja Schulz, Tom Shippey, Carline Tromp, and Kendra Willson.

Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter

Author : Laura Goodman Salverson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228018579
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter written by Laura Goodman Salverson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents’ intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on the Prairies at the turn of the century, all against a backdrop of European settlement in post-Riel Manitoba and in colourful, self-assured prose. Leaving behind economic hardship, a difficult climate, and the threat of volcanoes, Lars Gudman was in search of stability for his family, but he was also ensnared by wanderlust. Travelling onward to Minnesota, the Dakotas, Selkirk, Duluth, and the Mississippi Valley, Salverson and her parents returned time and again to the Icelandic enclave in Winnipeg, a community struggling to adjust to life in Canada. In Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter Salverson makes real the political and cultural history of the twentieth-century North American west, even as she draws the reader into the inner life of a young girl growing up “hopelessly Icelandic” and finding refuge from discrimination and ostracism in the world of books. With a new introduction by Carl Watts situating the memoir and its prolific author in the literary canon, and reproducing Salverson’s original preface for the first time, Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Twentieth Century in European Memory

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900435235X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century in European Memory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and communication as well as Europe’s changing institutional structure, such memories become increasingly transcultural, crossing cultural and political borders. This book brings together in-depth researched case studies of memory transmission and reception in different types of media, including films, literature, museums, political debate printed and digital media, as well as studies of personal and public reactions. Contributors are: Ismar Dedović, Astrid Erll, Rosanna Farbøl, Magdalena Góra, Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Anne Heimo, Sara Jones, Wulf Kansteiner, Slawomir Kapralski, Zoé de Kerangat, Zdzisław Mach, Natalija Majsova, Inge Melchior, Daisy Neijmann, Vjeran Pavlaković, Benedikt Perak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.