| SUMMARY: |
This book explores the Norwegian and Romanian immigrants’ quest for
identity, the difficulties it implies, the inner conflicts that appear during the
assimilation process, as revealed by the immigrant narratives of the
Norwegian writers Ole Edvart Rølvaag and Knut Hamsun and of the
Romanian writer Anișoara Stan, each author having a different perspective
on emigration. A comparison between the Norwegian and Romanian
emigration to America from its beginning until the end of the Second World
War will further support the idea that the problems encountered by the
immigrants on their way to adapting to a new cultural environment were
rather similar. |
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