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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Kamphoefner, Walter D. |
| Title, Analytic | The Quest of the Historical Juernjakob: A Centennial Evaluation of an Immigrant Novel and the Real-Life Figure Behind It |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2016 |
| Volume ID | 51 |
| Location in Work | 5-27 |
| View Online | https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v51i |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | Describes both the author's and Eldon Knuth's search to trace the fictionalized Juernjakob Swehn to a real person. "Even with Knuth's discoveries [see: Knuth, Eldon L. "Who Wrote Those Letters?" German-American Genealogy. 2005 Spring; 11-12, ill.] and those I have built upon them, there is still much that remains ambiguous as to what parts of the book [Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer] we can attribute to the historical Juernjakob, a real Iowa immigrant farmer [named Wiedow], and how much is attributable to his ghostwriter Gillhoff. But perhaps the strongest conclusion we can draw . . . is the evidence his example brings of the openness and assimilative pull of American society for European immigrants and their children, even in German enclaves of rural Iowa." |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 22-27). --- Jürnjakob |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Gillhoff, Johannes/ German Americans -- Iowa/ Swehn, Juernjakob/ Immigrants in literature/ Letters/ Mecklenburg |