O. E. Rolvaag, Peder Seier [Peter Victorious]

Max Lester Loges (Lamar University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1928

Places

United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Peder Victorious

is a continuation of

Giants in the Earth

, a tale of immigrant struggles on the prairie of South Dakota.

Peder Victorious

takes up soon after the father Per Hansa’s death, the event that concludes the former novel. The Hansa family, who have now Anglicized their last name to Holm, are living on the same farm they homesteaded in the earlier book. The family consists of the mother Beret, and her two grown sons Ola and Hans, a teenage daughter Anna Marie, and the youngest child, a little boy named Peder.

Peder Victorious examines the challenges facing second generation immigrants who, unlike their parents, do not struggle with the earth, but with the tension between his ancestral culture and that of his adopted country. Another key aspect of the story is how the frontier

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Citation: Loges, Max Lester. "Peder Seier". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 July 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26206, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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