My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 088755699X ISBN 13 : 9780887556999

Editeur : University of Manitoba Press, 2007

Synopsis

My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the University of Manitoba, seven of the fourteen memoirs are translated here from Icelandic to English. They offer a rare first-hand look into the lives of New World immigrants of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Readers are invited straight into the heart of these people's lives, from social evenings spent reading poetry and the sagas, to the daily struggles to prepare the land and build homes. A prevailing sense of community emerges from the writers' stories, showing how Icelandic culture and tradition sustained the immigrants through hardship, illness, and isolation. My Parents also details some of the genealogy of the New World Icelanders who settled in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Birna Bjarnadóttir is the acting head and chair of the department of Icelandic Language and Literature, University of Manitoba.

Finnbogi Gumundsson is the former head of the Icelandic National Library in Reykjavik.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Manitoba Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088755699X
• ISBN 13: 9780887556999
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Bjarnadottir Birna, Gudmundsson Finnbogi
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