Luso American Literature

Author : Robert Henry Moser,Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813550572

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Luso-American Literature by Robert Henry Moser,Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta Pdf

Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants have had a significant presence in North America since the nineteenth century. Recently, Brazilians have also established vibrant communities in the U.S. This anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the writings of these diverse Portuguese-speaking, or "Luso-American" voices. Historically linked by language, colonial experience, and cultural influence, yet ethnically distinct, Luso-Americans have often been labeled an "invisible minority." This collection seeks to address this lacuna, with a broad mosaic of prose, poetry, essays, memoir, and other writings by more than fifty prominent literary figures--immigrants and their descendants, as well as exiles and sojourners. It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant experience.

Author : Christopher Larkosh,Emmanuel da Silva,Maggie L.N. Felisberto,Jo-Anne Sharon Ferreira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : American literature
ISBN : 195147001X

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Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today by Christopher Larkosh,Emmanuel da Silva,Maggie L.N. Felisberto,Jo-Anne Sharon Ferreira Pdf

"This issue is dedicated primarily to Luso-American literatures and cultures from across the US, Canada and the Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from both within and beyond the current set of canonical reference points. Articles on the cultures of southeastern New England are joined by others that focus on Montreal, Barbados, and Curaçao. This issue also features literary contributions from urban centers such as Toronto, San Francisco and Vancouver, as well as authors whose work can be said to be in transit between North America and disparate points in the Lusophone Atlantic (continental Portugal, the Azores, Cabo Verde)."--Publisher's description.

Author : Reinaldo Francisco Silva
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781847601087

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Portuguese American Literature by Reinaldo Francisco Silva Pdf

Literature written in English by American writers of Portuguese descent has come of age with the acclaimed work of Frank Gaspar and Katherine Vaz. This study attempts to explore, on the one hand, America's understanding of its ethnic minorities, and on the other, the writers' own ethnic pride and the celebration of their roots. It includes a full length analysis of works by Thomas Braga, Julian Silva, Alfred Lewis, Charles Felix and other voices.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89116883562

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Asela Rodríguez-Seda de Laguna
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1412824664

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Global Impact of the Portuguese Language by Asela Rodríguez-Seda de Laguna Pdf

Within the cultural and literary context of contemporary Portugal and Western literature, 1998 was unquestionably the year that Portuguese writing gained international recognition as Jos Saramago became the first Portuguese writer ever to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Readers who had never thought about Portuguese letters began to consume his books and, most importantly, opted for expanding their reading lists to include other important writers not only from Portugal, but from Portuguese-speaking well beyond the borders of Portugal. Global Impact of the Portuguese Language is a collection of Portuguese writing that is as rich in content and broad in scope as the diversity of its topics and writing modes of its contributors. The book is divided into three major parts. Part 1, "Different Cultural Perspectives of Portuguese Writing," contains thirteen chapters in which the first and opening one, "Portugal: The New Frontier" ably sets the stage for the book by examining from a cultural perspective how Portugal, a peripheral country in the new world system, serves as a microcosm of the problems of cultural intercommunication in today's world. Subsequent chapters are grouped in three categories: "The Voices of the Writers," "Critical Approaches to Cames," and "Fictionalizing the Nation." Part 2, "Portuguese Language and Literature Outside Portugal," comprises one section devoted to the Portuguese language in Africa, followed by studies about Portuguese discoveries as part of the historical process of remembering and forging one's identity, and finally a comprehensive historical development of Portuguese writing, both in Portuguese and English, in the United States. Part 3, "Portuguese Literature and Criticism Available in English: Suggested Readings" details the recent literary happenings which point to a possible renaissance in Portuguese literary production. The concluding part of this volume offers a short, comprehensive listing of anthologies, general studies, and the most popular translations of the best of Portuguese writing from Portugal and Africa. This lively volume constitutes a first pioneering effort to contribute to a deepening appreciation and understanding of Portuguese writing. Anyone interested in ethnic writing will find this book an invaluable education resource with which to begin an exploration of Portuguese writing in the United States. Asela Rodriguez de Laguna is associate professor of Spanish and director of the Hispanic Civilization & Language Studies Program. She is the author of Notes on Puerto Rican Literature: Images and Identities: An Introduction, and editor of Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts.

Author : Christopher Larkosh,Oona Patrick
Publisher : Portuguese in the Americas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1933227869

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Behind the Stars, More Stars by Christopher Larkosh,Oona Patrick Pdf

Presenting experimental and boundary-breaking prose from women, people of color, and LGBTQ writers, Behind the Stars, More Stars imagines a more diverse and inclusive Luso-American and Portuguese-American literary scene, which has traditionally been dominated by male voices. Since its first "Writing the Luso Experience" workshops were held in 2011, Dzanc Books's Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon has aimed to break silences within today's Luso-American communities. Disquiet faculty Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar appear alongside up-and-coming writers from the workshops, such as Traci Brimhall, Megan Fernandes, Hugo Dos Santos, and previously unpublished women writers.

Author : Robert Patrick Newcomb,Richard Allen Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 0814213472

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Beyond Tordesillas by Robert Patrick Newcomb,Richard Allen Gordon Pdf

In Beyond Tordesillas both young and established scholars forcefully challenge the disciplinary boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Instead, the volume's contributors reveal Iberian and Latin American cultures to be inherently transoceanic, and therefore best approached in comparative terms.

Author : Katherine Vaz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803217904

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Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vaz Pdf

The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these stories is Portuguese-American, redolent of incense and spices, resonant with ritual and prayer, immersed in the California culture of freeway and commerce. Packed with lyrical prose and vivid detail, acclaimed writer Katherine Vaz conjures a captivating blend of Old World heritage and New World culture to explore the links between families, friends, strangers, and their world. ø From the threat of a serial killer as the background for a young girl?s first brush with death to the fallout of a modern-day visitation from the Virgin Mary; from an AIDS-stricken squatter refusing to vacate an empty Lisbon home to a mother?s yearlong struggle with the death of her synesthetic daughter, these deft stories make their world ours.

Author : Warwick Anderson,Ricardo Roque,Ricardo Ventura Santos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800736368

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Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents by Warwick Anderson,Ricardo Roque,Ricardo Ventura Santos Pdf

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.

Author : Luso-American Development Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9728654049

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Collection of Portuguese contemporary art of the Luso-American Development Foundation by Luso-American Development Foundation Pdf

Author : Jose Luis Peixoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0981483690

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A Child in Ruins by Jose Luis Peixoto Pdf

This book is a selection from the three books that I published so far. 'A Child in Ruins' is the title of the first of these books. A Crianca em Ruinas (A Child in Ruins), first published in 2001 A Casa, a Escuridao (The House, the Darkness), first published in 2002 Gaveta de Papeis (Drawer of Papers), first published in 2008 The selection of the poems was made by me with some suggestions by Hugo. 'A Child in Ruins' was awarded the Award of the Portuguese Society of Authors for the best poetry book of that year. 'Gaveta de Papeis' was awarded the Daniel Faria Award for poetry. This is the first time 'A Child in Ruins' has been translated into English."

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642131

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Katherine Vaz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822978848

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Fado and Other Stories by Katherine Vaz Pdf

Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth: Milton, one narrator explains, has made apples the object of a misunderstanding by naming them as Eden’s fruit: “In the Bible, no fruit is named in the Garden of Eden - and to this day apples are misunderstood. They were trying to tempt people not into sin but into listening to the earth more closely. . . . their white meal runs wet with the knowledge of the language of the land, but people do not listen.” Vaz’s beautiful, intensely conscious language often delicately slips her stories into the realm of the fado, the Portuguese song about fate and longing. “Listen for the nightingale that presses its breast against the thorns of the rose,” on character sings, “that the song might be more beautiful.” Such a verse might describe Vaz’s own motive behind her willingness to confront her subject’s ambiguities and her characters’ conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life’s discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.

Author : Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810142619

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Fictional Environments by Victoria Saramago Pdf

Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

Author : Russell G. Hamilton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816657810

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Voices from an Empire by Russell G. Hamilton Pdf

Voices From an Empire was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The literature of the various regions of Lusophone Africa has received relatively little critical attention compared with that which has been focused on the work of writers in the English- and French- speaking countries of Africa. With the profound changes which are occurring in the social and political structures of Lusophone Africa, there is particular need for the comprehensive look at Afro-Protuguese literature which this account provides. Professor Hamilton traces the development of this literature in the broad perspective of it social, cultural, and aesthetic context. He discusses the whole of the Afro-Portuguese literary phenomenon, as it occurs on the Cape Verde archipelago, in Guinea-Bissau, on the Guinea Gulf islands of Sao Tome and Principe, in Angola, and in Mozambique. In an introduction he discusses some basic questions about Afro-Protuguese literature, among them, the matter of a definition of this body of writing, the implications of the concept of negritude, the role of Portugal and Brazil in Afro-Portuguese literature, and the social and cultural significance of the dominant literary themes found in the various regions of Lusophone Africa. Because he sees the regionalist movement in Angola as the most significant in terms of a neo-African orientation, he begins the book with an extensive study of the literature of that country. Many examples of afro-Portuguese poetry are given, both in the original language and in the English translation. There is a bibliography, and a map shows the African regions of study.