Author: George Tobias FlomPublisher:
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Category : Scandinavian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
... A History of Scandinavian Studies in American Universities
Author: George Tobias FlomPublisher:
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Category : Scandinavian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Viking America
Author: Geraldine BarnesPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.
Directory of Scandinavian Studies in North America
Author: Robert Barthel KvavikPublisher:
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Scandinavian Studies and Notes
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Scandinavian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Includes Proceedings of the Society.
MLN.
Author: Scandinavian Studies in America
Author: Gene G. GagePublisher:
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Modern Language Notes
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Bibliography of the Publications of the University and Its Members
Author: University of IowaScandinavians in Chicago
Author: Erika K. JacksonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205086X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the "race" proclaimed by the scientific racism of the era as the very embodiment of white superiority. As such, Scandinavians from the beginning enjoyed racial privilege and the success it brought without the prejudice, nativism, and stereotyping endured by other immigrant groups. Erika K. Jackson examines how native-born Chicagoans used ideological and gendered concepts of Nordic whiteness and Scandinavian ethnicity to construct social hegemony. Placing the Scandinavian-American experience within the context of historical whiteness, Jackson delves into the processes that created the Nordic ideal. She also details how the city's Scandinavian immigrants repeated and mirrored the racial and ethnic perceptions disseminated by American media. An insightful look at the immigrant experience in reverse, Scandinavians in Chicago bridges a gap in our understanding of how whites constructed racial identity in America.