Icelandic heritage in North America
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Icelandic heritage in North America
University of Manitoba Press, 2023
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Translated and expanded [ed.] of: Sigurtunga, 2018
Translated from the Icelandic
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Description
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 Arnbjoernsdottir, Hoeskulder THrainsson, and Ulfar 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.
Table of Contents
Foreward by Gudni Th. Johannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland
Introduction
Moving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914
Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Islendingur?
Acculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century
The Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers
Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War
Icelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjoerleifsson Kvaran's "Hopes"
Another emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undina and Stephan G. Stephansson
The young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Johann Magnus Bjarnason's life and work
Icelandic-Canadian oral lore: New life in a new land and how the women's tales may shed light on the classification of the Edda poems
Raven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West
World meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic?
Understanding complex sentences in a heritage language
"And the dog is sleeping too": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic
Language and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic
The Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications
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