Saudade

Author : Anik See
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781770561991

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Saudade by Anik See Pdf

The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation. In its simplest sense, it describes a feeling of longing for something that is now gone, and may yet return, but in all likelihood can never be recaptured. In Saudade: The Possibilities of Place, traveller Anik See traces her attempts to reclaim this loss in a series of informal essays that take us from the salt plains of Wood Buffalo National Park and the mountains of British Columbia to the fishing ports of Sri Lanka and the rough roads of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Whether at a fishfry in the Northwest Territories, at the post-9/11 Canada-US border, on the ultimate road trip through Australia or at a summer carnival in Santiago de Cuba, See is on a continual quest for simplicity, interrogating the perceived distance between privilege and want. Quietly, insistently, these thoughtful essays ask what we might accomplish if we said no to entitlement; if, instead, we used our privilege to help us better understand human nature. By examining a multitude of landscapes, and by uncovering characters whose most important possession is the landscape around them, these essays examine what it takes for us to feel alive in a time when we can have everything, when our needs seem limitless. Throughout this psychogeographic diary, crowded with rituals of faith, death and renewal, See asks, again and again, 'How much will be enough?'

Author : Suneeta Peres da Costa
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925336702

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Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa Pdf

A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony’s independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title (saudade means ‘melancholy’ in Portuguese) speaks to the longing for homeland that haunts its characters, and especially the young girl who is the book’s protagonist and narrator. Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novella captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between the daughter and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world opens up questions about domestic violence, the legacies of Portuguese slavery, and the end of empire. The young woman’s intellectual awakening unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism, and the violent political ruptures that ultimately lead to her father’s death, and their exile. ‘[Her] voice is unique: neither childlike nor grownup, but instead by turns gravely articulate, wildly poetic, and hilariously original…a haunting and magical vision of childhood.’ Austin Chronicle

Author : Traci Brimhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556595174

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Saudade by Traci Brimhall Pdf

Inspired by her mother's ancestry and described by Brimhall as "autobiomythography," Saudade explores the myths within an Amazon River town.

Author : Jack A. Draper (III)
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : 24.32 history of film art
ISBN : 1783207639

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Saudade in Brazilian Cinema by Jack A. Draper (III) Pdf

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how this emotion is imagined on the screen. Analyzing over sixty years of Brazilian cinema, Jack A. Draper III uses the idea of saudade to create an analytical framework within the field of emotion studies. Draper places insights on saudade on screen in dialogue with theoretical studies of emotion and affect as well as film theory. The result is a new way of understanding saudade and the representation of emotion in twentieth and twenty-first century Brazilian cinema.

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547737461

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A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.

Author : Katherine Vaz
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312144083

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Saudade by Katherine Vaz Pdf

The exotic Clara, born deaf on a Portuguese island steeped in legend and mystery, relocates to northern California, where her profound sense of longing drives her to create her own language to express her sensual vitality. Reprint.

Author : Irenay Stevens
Publisher : Partridge Africa
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482862096

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Saudade by Irenay Stevens Pdf

Have you ever felt at a loss for words? Like there wasnt a word invented for the situation or emotion you were experiencing? That was exactly how I felt. After you were gone there was nothing I could say to express the way I felt. Empty? Broken? Hollow? None of those words began to describe what was going on inside my heart. People say all wounds heal with time.That was not my experience, as time passed the longing for you became more intense. I was sure something was wrong with me. How could I love you when you were not even there? When I wasnt even sure of your existence? I stumbled on a word that I never heard of before. It was a silly article that popped up while I was doing research online. Saudade: The Untranslatable Word Everyone Sings About. I was intrigued by this and as a teacher of a language wanted to know more. It turned out it is a Portuguese word that is defined as a melancholy nostalgia. There are many different definitions for this word there was one that I thought was most appropriate. The love that remains.

Author : Anthony De Sa
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371911

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Barnacle Love by Anthony De Sa Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience. At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped. Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort. With fantastic detail, larger-than-life characters and passionate empathy, Anthony De Sa invites readers into the lives of the Rebelos and finds there both the promise and the disappointment inherent in the choices made by the father and the expectations placed on the son.

Author : Anaïs Barbeau-lavalette
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566538

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Neighbourhood Watch by Anaïs Barbeau-lavalette Pdf

The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Mélissa, Roxane, and Kevin have never had it easy. As their parents face their own struggles – with addiction, unemployment, and abuse – they must learn to fend for themselves. Though their lives converge at school, on the street, at the corner store, or when they can hear each other through their apartments’ thin walls, they each feel deeply alone. Neighbourhood Watch tells their coming-of-age stories with a cinematic ease, moving between despair and the unalterable hope of childhood. With her characteristic poetic flair and generosity, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, author of the acclaimed Suzanne, has painted, in brief strokes, an unforgettable and moving portrait of a fictional apartment block in Montreal. This translation of her 2010 debut novel is presented with an afterword interview with a woman who, as a child, was the inspiration behind the character of Roxane. ‘This is prose to lose yourself in. Never complicated, it’s gentle like a love song, comforting and enveloping like a black-and-white film, full of tones and textures. These sentences can destroy us. Not for their simplicity, but for the powerful beauty within the simplicity.’ —Peter McCambridge, ‘Best Translated Book Award: Why This Book Should Win,’ on Suzanne

Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Brazil
ISBN : UOM:39015024772454

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Brazil by United States. Office of Geography Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Varadan
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1646621484

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Saudade: Thirty Poems of Longing by Elizabeth Varadan Pdf

Author : Bert Peeters
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230911

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Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar by Bert Peeters Pdf

This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka's groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage. Some of the findings presented here invite us to have a fresh look at what has already been achieved, and to amend some of the working hypotheses of the NSM approach accordingly. The volume also contains six case studies (on Italian sfogarsi, Portuguese saudades, Spanish crisis, French certes, Spanish expressions of sincerity and Italian and Spanish diminutives, respectively).

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822378853

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Fado Resounding by Lila Ellen Gray Pdf

Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice hovering on the break of a sob; in moments of sung beauty listeners sometimes cry. Providing an ethnographic account of Lisbon's fado scene, Lila Ellen Gray draws on research conducted with amateur fado musicians, fadistas, communities of listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers during the first decade of the twenty-first century. She demonstrates the power of music to transform history and place into feeling in a rapidly modernizing nation on Europe's periphery, a country no longer a dictatorship or an imperial power. Gray emphasizes the power of the genre to absorb sounds, memories, histories, and styles and transform them into new narratives of meaning and "soul."

Author : Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0729301451

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Garrett and the English Muse by Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt Pdf

Author : Isabelle Albert,Emily Abbey,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : IAP
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781641130844

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Trans-Generational Family Relations by Isabelle Albert,Emily Abbey,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

The present volume deals with the experience of ambivalence in family relations - a well-known phenomenon that has inspired more and more research and theorizing in the last years but that is however sometimes difficult to capture. Bringing together junior and senior researchers from different parts of the world, ideas on theory and research are elaborated following qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book thus contributes to theory-building as well as outlining research results and helping to develop measurement in interpersonal and intergenerational relations.