Writings by Western Icelandic women
by Kirsten Wolf
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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.
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Translations into English, Women authors, Icelandic literature, Canadian literature, Icelandic literature, modern (collections), Canadian literature (English), Canadian literature (Icelandic), Icelandic Canadian authors, Écrits de femmes canadiens-anglais, Écrits de femmes canadiens-islandais, Littérature canadienne (islandaise), Traductions anglaises, Littérature canadienne-anglaise, Auteurs canadiens d'origine islandaisePlaces
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Writings by Western Icelandic women
1996, University of Manitoba Press
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0887556418 9780887556418
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Includes bibliographical references.
"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" --Intro.
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