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Giants in the Earth

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Giants in the Earth
portrayal of man’s struggle with the stubborn earth. [Am. Lit.: Giants in the Earth, Magill I, 303–304]
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But Stephen Sumida, in Hawaii, finds another part of America, a very different culture, finds that Giants in the Earth inspired one of the first works of fiction to chronicle Hawaii's Asian immigration.
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Rolvag's Giants in the Earth and Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky.
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writes that since the 1850s an immigrants' culture and a literature which comprises some one hundred novels in Norwegian and culminates in Ole Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth had developed.
Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America by Walden, Daniel / African American Review
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