Writings by Western Icelandic women /
"There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, settled since Viking times. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelanders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which still maintain strong ties to the "old cou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Icelandic |
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Winnipeg, Man. :
University of Manitoba Press,
©1996.
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| Online Access: | Available via EBSCO eBook Collection |
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| Summary: | "There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, settled since Viking times. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelanders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which still maintain strong ties to the "old country."" "This collection of short stories and poems spans seventy-five years of writing by Western Icelandic women writers. It includes translated work by little-known early writers, such as Undina, who wrote before the turn of the century, as well as work written in English by prominent writers such as Laura Goodman Salverson, twice a winner of the Governor-General's Award. These short stories and poems reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | "This collection of short stories and poems by Western Icelandic women writers spans almost a century of writing, from the emigration and settlement of Icelanders in the early 1870s to their assimilation into North American culture in the 1950s and 1960s, and includes works by both Icelandic-writing (in translation) and English-writing authors"--Introduction. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) : portraits |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0887556418 9780887556418 9780887553981 0887553982 |