Occupied Norway or Neutral Sweden.
Format: doubled-spaced 12-point font, 1” margins, 3 pages (max. 800 words); Include your NAME and PROMPT # on the paper (but do not include wording of the entire prompt) Making specific references to and offering short quotations from relevant texts: Three world famous writers, Sigrid Undset, John Steinbeck and Knut Hamsun (each received a Nobel Prize for Literature) have published literary fiction or memoirs, which represent or relate to Norway’s Occupation during WWII. Discuss the “Allied” or American perspective in the contemporaneous texts by Sigrid Undset and John Steinbeck, both written and initially published in the US in 1942 (Undset’s as a translation to English from Norwegian). How is a Norwegian national narrative depicted or suggested in these texts (you might add a third perspective, that of Knut Hamsun)? Alternatively how are occupation, collaboration, and resistance represented variously in these texts?