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Birna Bjarnadottir and Finnbogi Gunmundsson, eds.: My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Birna Bjarnadottir and Finnbogi Gunmundsson, eds. My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007. 124 pp. Notes. $22.95 sc.

In 1956, Finnbogi Gunmundsson, who served as the first chair of Icelandic Language and Literature at the University of Manitoba, published in Reykjavik a collection of fourteen memoirs written by second-generation Icelanders in North America under the title Foreldrar minir: Endurminningar nokkurra Islendinga Vestan hafs. The volume My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders presents an English translation of a selection of seven essays chosen by Finnbogi Gunmundsson from the fourteen originally published in Icelandic. Only one of the essays has been previously translated (by Nina Campbell) and published in English: the piece on the acclaimed "poet of the Rocky Mountains" Stephan G. Stephansson and his wife...

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