{"product_id":"icelandic-heritage-in-north-america-9781772840216","title":"Icelandic Heritage in North America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMapping 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, \u003cem\u003eIcelandic Heritage in North America\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskulder Þráinsson, and Úlfar 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIcelandic Heritage in North America\u003c\/em\u003e offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeward by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIcelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRalph E. Halldorson and the Great War\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIcelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran’s “Hopes”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason’s life and work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIcelandic-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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding complex sentences in a heritage language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"And the dog is sleeping too\": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469929386327,"sku":"9781772840216","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781772840216.jpg?v=1744896819","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/icelandic-heritage-in-north-america-9781772840216","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}