Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / / Jennifer Eastman Attebery
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| Autore: |
Attebery Jennifer Eastman <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / / Jennifer Eastman Attebery
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press |
| Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 978.004397 |
| Soggetto topico: | Swedish Americans - West (U.S.) |
| Swedish Americans - Rocky Mountains Region | |
| Immigrants - West (U.S.) | |
| Immigrants - Rocky Mountains Region | |
| Letter writing - West (U.S.) - History | |
| Letter writing - Rocky Mountains Region - History | |
| American letters - West (U.S.) | |
| American letters - Rocky Mountains Region | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Social life and customs |
| Rocky Mountains Region Social life and customs | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgments -- A note on translations -- Preface : expanding Swedish America westward -- Vernacular writing : letter writing as a folk practice -- "Thanks for the letter" : the shape of the genre -- "Here are many Swedes" : nodes and networks of Swedish settlement in the Rockies -- "I work every day" : becoming American workers -- "I am sending money" : old country and new -- "Out West" : identifying with a new region -- "God's good gift" : religious language in the Rocky Mountain letters -- Identity, genre, meaning : what we learn from reading vernacular letters -- Appendix : the letter writers and twenty letters. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Up in the Rocky Mountains |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5420-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910969701503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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