Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas – serie
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19 produkter
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries
Portuguese Contexts
Av Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott
Inbunden, 2016
1330 kr
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This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies …
Search for a New National Identity
The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s–1970s
Inbunden, 2016
1288 kr
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This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a «people» from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Taking as its central theme the way each country responded to the introduction of new …
Invisible in Plain Sight
Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest
Av Jill E. Rowe
Inbunden, 2016
1136 kr
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The Land Act of 1820 made it possible for settlers to begin to populate the West and added to the confiscation of land from Native Americans. Former landowners – a mix of Native American, African and European ancestry – migrated to the northern frontier and founded at least thirty well-defined free …
Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup
Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America
Av George Monteiro, Irene Maria F. Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1192 kr
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Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. The book discusses subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of this culture. Included are analyses of the Portuguese fondness for nicknames over surnames, pejorative …
There's No Word for «Saudade»
Perspectives on the Literature and Culture of Portuguese America
Av George Monteiro, Irene Maria F. Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1415 kr
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There’s No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those related to Portuguese America. Significant figures covered include John Dos Passos, Charles Reis Felix, Julian Silva, John Philip Sousa, Mark Twain, Herman …
Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji
Diaspora, Literature, and Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1349 kr
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The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a collection of scholarly articles that engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and nonfiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author. Vassanji’s works have a sense of multiple connections across four …
Afrocentroamericanos en Nueva York
Relatos Garifunas de Movimientos Transnacionales en Espacios Racializados
Av Sarah England, Irene Maria F Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1222 kr
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Este libro explora la dinámica de los movimientos sociales garífunas y su migración transnacional entre Honduras y la ciudad de Nueva York.
Afrocentroamericanos en Nueva York
Relatos Garifunas de Movimientos Transnacionales en Espacios Racializados
Av Sarah England, Irene Maria F Blayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
557 kr
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Este libro explora la dinámica de los movimientos sociales garífunas y su migración transnacional entre Honduras y la ciudad de Nueva York. Como pueblo afroindígena con comunidades en cinco estados-nación, los garífunas son ejemplares de las formas complejas cómo las ideas de raza, etnia y nación …
Landscapes of Writing
Collected Essays of Bapsi Sidhwa
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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This book is a collection of essays by international writer Bapsi Sidhwa gathered for the first time in one edition by Teresa Russo, with a foreword written by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Landscapes of Writing: Collected Essays of Bapsi Sidhwa provides a writer’s perspective on issues of …
Perceptions de l'Espace Chez Frankétienne Et Tahar Ben Jelloun
Av Jean Norgaisse, Irene Maria F Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1171 kr
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Le présent ouvrage est une étude comparative entre deux grandes figures de la littérature d'expression française: Frankétienne, haïtien de souche, et Tahar Ben Jelloun, d'origine marocaine.
American Studies Over_Seas 1: Narrating Multiple America(s)
In Honor of Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid
Av Edgardo da Silva, Margarida Vale de Gato m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1230 kr
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American Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s) is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most recent turn—Transnational American Studies—a paradigm shift in the discipline which runs counter to a consensus version of U.S. history and culture. The …
American Studies Over_Seas 2: (Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Atlantic
In Honor of Teresa F. A. Alves and Teresa Cid
Av Edgardo da Silva, Margarida Vale de Gato m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
955 kr
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(Multi)Vocal Exchanges Across the Ocean is the second volume of the project American Studies Over_Seas, an edited collection of texts honoring two pioneering Portuguese scholars in American literature and culture. Devoted to relations between Portugal and the United States, it includes essays by …
Contos Populares Portugueses do Canadá / Portuguese Folktales from Canada
Av Manuel da Costa Fontes, Dulce Maria Scott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1189 kr
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Este livro, que contribui para a preservação duma tradição oral em vias de desaparecimento, inclui 116 contos de carácter indo-europeu gravados a 28 informantes do Norte de Portugal e dos Açores no Canadá. Os contos foram fielmente transcritos. A introdução, em português e inglês, apresenta um …
Contos Populares Portugueses de Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales from Massachusetts
Av Manuel da Costa Fontes, Dulce Maria Scott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1204 kr
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Esta é a segunda de duas coleções dedicadas ao conto popular português na América do Norte (Canadá e Massachusetts). O presente volume, que contribui para a preservação de uma tradição imemorial em via de desaparecimento, é composto por 82 contos folclóricos de carácter indo-europeu gravados em …
Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes
Av Richard Simas, Irene Maria F. Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
896 kr
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Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of traditional music played in St. John’s, Newfoundland: the Portuguese Waltzes. Through interviews, research, and observations, author Richard Simas …
American Murids
A Lived Muslim Practice of Nonviolence
Av Jonathan Bornman, Irene Maria F. Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
970 kr
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American Murids is a major new ethnography of an African Sufi Muslim immigrant community in the United States. It is particularly timely given the current contentious discourse concerning Muslims and immigration. By listening to what Murids say about themselves, author Jonathan Bornman gives us the …
Transcultural Narrative Identities
A Study of Memoir in Contemporary Anglophone Women Authors of the Italian Diaspora
Av Eva Pelayo-Sanudo, María Pilar Rodríguez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1001 kr
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This book aims to create a new space for the analysis of female experience in the Italian diaspora through a selected sample of representative writers in contemporary Anglophone literature. In addition, it presents memoir writing as a fertile ground for literary and cultural research and as an …
Sages of Darkness
A Depiction of Kurdish Life in Late Ottoman Times
Av Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott
Inbunden, 2024
896 kr
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Previously unavailable in English, Salim Barakat’s Sages of Darkness depicts Kurdish life in the period of transition from a traditional tribal existence to half-hearted modernization under the Ottomans. A saga of the lives and deaths of two Kurdish chieftains and their families, it is filled with …
Roots Revisited
A Hometown Study
Av Steven Verrier, P. David Marshall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
978 kr
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Decades after pulling up stakes, three sixty-something Canadians living in three different countries are drawn back to the town in which they spent their formative years and built their lifelong friendship. In Roots Revisited, they share their memories of the town that molded them and sent them on …
