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The western home : a literary history of Norwegian America
- Title
- The western home : a literary history of Norwegian America / by Orm Øverland.
- Author
- Øverland, Orm, 1935-2021
- Publication
- [Northfield, Minn.] : Norwegian-American Historical Association ; [Urbana-Champaign] : Distributed by University of Illinois Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xii, 442 pages : illustrations, portraits, facs.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Western Home: A Literary History of Norwegian America is a history of American literature. It is different from other histories of American literature in that the language of the writers and their readers was not English. There have been studies of American authors who have used languages such as French, German, Spanish, or Swedish, but this is the first comprehensive history of any literature written and read in the United States in another language than English. Indeed, most histories of American literature are based on the theory that English is the only American literary language. Such a theory, however, dismisses the fact that English has in periods been a minority language in many areas. In this book American literature is the literature of people who are American by choice or by birth regardless of the language they may have used. This book demonstrates that Norwegian has indeed been an American literary language and that many of the American writers in this language deserve our attention.
- Series Statement
- Authors series ; v. 8
- Uniform Title
- Authors series (Norwegian-American Historical Association) ; v. 8.
- Subject
- Norwegian-American Historical Association
- Norwegian American literature > History and criticism
- Norwegian American periodicals > History
- Norwegians > United States > Intellectual life
- Norwegian Americans > Intellectual life
- Norwegian American literature
- Norwegian American periodicals
- Letterkunde
- Noors
- Engels
- Noren
- Emigranten
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-436) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Vesterheimen: A Marginal and Transitional Culture -- 2. Writing for a European Audience -- 3. The First Newspapers -- 4. The Genesis of Commercial Publishing 1847-1876 -- 5. Bearing Historical Witness -- 6. A Pattern of Verse -- 7. Staging the Immigrant Scene -- 8. Immigrant Fictions: On Both Sides of the Ocean -- 9. Many Were Called -- 10. Ole Amundsen Buslett: Romantic Idealist -- 11. Hans A. Foss: Populist -- 12. The Minneapolis Interlude of the Jansons -- 13. Knut Teigen and Peer Stromme: Natives of Wisconsin -- 14. Celebrations, Controversies, and Appraisals 1884 -- 1905 -- 1914 -- 1925 -- 15. A Broadening Base: Non-Fiction 1900-1930 -- 16. A Mixed Chorus of Singers -- 17. They All Had Stories To Tell -- 18. Simon Johnson: Poet of the Prairies -- 19. Dorthea Dahl: Poet of Everyday Life -- 20. Jon Norstog: Prophet in the Wilderness -- 21. Johannes B. Wist: Bemused Spectator -- 22. Waldemar Ager: Untiring Crusader -- 23. The Four Lives of Ole Edvart Rolvaag.
- ISBN
- 0877320853
- 9780877320852
- 0252023277
- 9780252023279
- LCCN
- 96232640
- OCLC
- ocm35965983
- 35965983
- SCSB-14324880
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library