Norwegian-American essays 1996
By: edited by Oyvind T. Gulliksen, David C. Mauk, Dina Tolfsby.
Contributors: Gulliksen, Øyvind Tveitereid.; Mauk, David, 1945-; Tolfsby, Dina.; Norwegian-American Seminar.
Publisher: NAHA-Norway; Norwegian Emigrant Museum
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oslo; Hamar
Language: eng; nor
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Norwegian Americans -- Congresses.
Other titles: Norwegian-American essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([243]-247).
Selected papers from the 4th and 5th Norwegian American Seminars organized by NAHA-Norway in Voss (1992) and in Sogndal (1994).
Table of contents: title: Better than a visit to the old country : the stevne of the sognalag in America / by Odd S. Lovoll; title: Reflections on the roots of American ethnicity / by Elliot Robert Barkan; title: Embraced by fields of boulders : household, landscape, and economy in Eidfjord, Hardanger, in the aftermath of the mass migration / by Ann Marie Legreid; title: And, you know, not all Norwegians are blond; title: the process of ethnicization in the Norwegian settlement communities in the American Middle West / by Jon Gjerde; title: The influence of the church on the assimilation of Danish Americans / by Jette Mackintosh; title: Ørkenen sur and other cultural adaptations to economic adversity among Brooklyn Norwegians during the 1930s / by David C. Mauk; title: Emigration from Northern Norway : a frontier phenomenon? : some perspectives and hypotheses / by Einar Niemi; title: Hjemvendte emigranter i Nordland / by Knut Djupedal; title: Økt kvinneutvandring fra nord-norske byer på slutten av 1800-tallet og fram til 1915 / av Vibeke Flå; title: Simon Johnson's from Fjord to Prairie (1916) as a forunner of Ole Rølvaag's Giants in the earth (1972) / by Dorothy Burton Skardal; title: Learning to read immigrant letters : reflections towards a textual theory / by Orm Øverland; title: Immigrant literature : double perspectives and cultural conflicts / by Ingeborg R. Kongslien.