Portuguese in the Americas Series – serie
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So Ends This Day
The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927
Häftad, 2010
397 kr
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In the first half of the nineteenth century whaling was one of the young American nation's most important industries, providing lubricants and illumination as well as baleen, the plastic of its day. So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927 traces the history of the American …
News on the American Dream
A History of the Portuguese Press in the United States
Häftad, 2020
477 kr
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News on the American Dream traces the development of the PortugueseAmerican press from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present, taking readers from the East Coast to Hawaii, with strategic stops in places with large Portuguese communities, including New Bedford, Massachusetts; …
Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature
Häftad, 2008
250 kr
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Characterized as ""the silent minority,"" the Portuguese have had a varied and checkered presence in American literature. Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature materially enhances our understanding of a field that until now only a handful of readers had noticed. Ranging from …
Holyoke
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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The Holyoke, out of print for several years and now reissued here in an entirely new edition, was the first collection of poems by one of America s distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In this book Frank X. Gaspar establishes his landscape, his straightforward diction, his precise …
Two Portuguese-American Plays
Amarelo & Through a Portagee Gate
Av Paulo A. Pereira, Patricia A. Thomas m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
209 kr
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Two Portuguese-American Plays, comprised of Through a Portagee Gate, adapted by Patricia A. Thomas from the Charles Reis Felix memoir of the same name, and Amarelo, by Paulo A. Pereira, dramatize immigrant experience in the mill-town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Each play begins or ends there, …
Behind the Stars, More Stars
The Tagus / Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing
Av Christopher Larkosh, Oona Patrick
Häftad, 2019
250 kr
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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 …
Poems of Renata Ferreira
Häftad, 2020
185 kr
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Renata Ferreira's poems were composed in the final years of Portugal's fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government's draconian edicts against women's rights, sexual freedoms, political dissent, and progressive thought. While she worked in the resistance as a clandestine writer, passing …
Leaving Pico
A Novel
Häftad, 2023
250 kr
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In the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown, Josie Carvalho's life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his great aunt's fervent, if idiosyncratic, Catholicism. The counterweight to these forces has always been Josie's relationship with his grandfather John …
