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.
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.
Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir is professor emerita of Second Language Studies at the University of Iceland, former dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, and director of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute. Höskuldur Thráinsson is professor emeritus of Modern Icelandic Linguistics at the University of Iceland, former dean of the Faculty of Humanities, chair of the Centre for the Humanities, and director of the Institute of Linguistics. Úlfar Bragason is professor emeritus at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and former director of the Sigurður Nordal Institute at the University of Iceland.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Foreward by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland 2. Introduction 3. Moving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914 4. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur? 5. Acculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century 6. The Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers 7. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War 8. Icelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran’s “Hopes” 9. Another emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson 10. The young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason’s life and work 11. 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 12. Raven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West 13. World meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic? 14. Understanding complex sentences in a heritage language 15. "And the dog is sleeping too": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic 16. Language and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic 17. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications
1. Foreward by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland 2. Introduction 3. Moving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914 4. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur? 5. Acculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century 6. The Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers 7. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War 8. Icelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran’s “Hopes” 9. Another emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson 10. The young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason’s life and work 11. 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 12. Raven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West 13. World meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic? 14. Understanding complex sentences in a heritage language 15. "And the dog is sleeping too": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic 16. Language and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic 17. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications
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