Two of these four recent books in Norwegian-American Studies are republications of immigrant literature in English translation, one a novel that originally appeared inOslo in 1926, the other a bilingual presentation of a long-running ethnic comic strip in book form. The other two books are works of scholarship, one a general immigrant/ethnic history that includes a long and detailed chapter on literature, the other a collection of essays about and by an early Norwegian immigrant author, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Together these four works demonstrate increasing interest in and knowledge about this ethnic literature, as well as growing transatlantic cooperation to recover it for readers of today. Note that two of these titles are published jointly by Norwegian and American concerns, while one has two separate editions planned in cooperation, one in the language of each country. Waldemar Ager (1869-1941) is generally recognized as one of the best Norwegian-American authors, second only to Ole R^lvaag. He immigrated to Chicago in his teens, moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 1892, and lived there the rest of his life as editor and publisher of the newspaper Reform, author, and ethnic leader. He devoted himself to working for a permanent Norwegian-American subculture in a pluralistic America, expressed not only in distinctive ethnic institutions but also in art and literature. A number of his essays advancing this view were republished in English translation as Cultural Pluralism versus Assimilation: The Views of Waldemar Ager, ed. Odd S. Lovoll (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association , 1977). Ager was a prolific writer of fiction, producing ten collections of short stories (some of which are absolute gems) and six novels in his long career.
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