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This book deals with ethnicity and immigration in literature, namely the Portuguese and their contributions to American society, economy, culture, and literature. Portuguese American literature written in English by American writers of Portuguese descent has come of age recently with the critically acclaimed writers Frank Gaspar and Katherine Vaz. This study includes a full length analysis of works by Thomas Braga, Julian Silva, Alfred Lewis, Charles Felix and other voices. It attempts to explore America's understanding of its ethnic minorities, ethnic pride and the celebration of one's roots. ... Read more

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Aims to make available in English several of the more interesting treatments of the Hero and Leander theme from the Iberian Peninsula. ... Read more

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This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debates in Spain and elsewhere--the emergence of minoritized literatures, multilingualism and identity, new relationships between culture and institutions, the negotiation of historical memories, the connections between migrations and the redefinition of nationhood, and the impact of global trends on local symbolic systems. ... Read more

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This collection of essays questions the traditional academic divisions which dictate the margins and centre in the study of Portuguese. The text juxtaposes and connects readings of literary figures with readings of "popular culture". ... Read more

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Publisher: New York : Institut de las Españas en los Estados UnidosPublication date: 1923Subjects: Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284Mary, Blessed Virgin, SaintSpanish literatureSupernatural in literatureMiraclesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Compiled by more than 90 experts, this two-volume dictionary includes representatives from all major peninsular literatures: Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. The rich history of the literary achievements in the Iberian Peninula--from historial to dramatic--can now be enjoyed by both European and American researchers. Spanning centuries, all literary titles have been followed in the text with a published translation or a literal rendering of the original. Virtually all entries have been composed by noted scholars and are complemented wherever possible by bibliographies of primary texts and selected critical studies as well as existing English translations of primary texts. ... Read more

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Explores the theme of emigration within the different genres of Azorean literature, arguing that it results from the historical and social phenomenon of emigration in this archipelago. The authors examined in this book portray a regional, cultural and literary uniqueness that is distinct from, but part of, Portuguese literature. ... Read more

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Another world of diversity
How many languages can truly be considered global in scope? Portuguese claims to be one, with over 200 million who use it as their main tongue. Yet few English speakers are familiar with Portuguese fiction in its own language. But it offers a wide cultural diversity that can be as enriching as that of the English speaking nations. In essence, this is the attraction of the book to those of us who do not know Portuguese. Written in English, it gathers in one place summaries of others' cultural varieties.

The strongest influences are naturally from Brazil and Portugal. There is some discussion of Mozambique and Angola, but those 2 nations are so poor and still struggling to rebuild from decades of war that their cultural influence outside their borders is marginal. Likewise, there is really no discussion of Goa and East Timor. But these have much smaller populations than the African countries. Beside, it appears that in newly independent East Timor, Portuguese is losing out to Bahasa and English.

There is a nice chapter on modern Portugal's vision of itself, and how that had to change after 1974, when its dictatorship ended and its colonies were let go. Readers may find echos here of when Britain and France divested themselves of their empires after World War 2 and seemed to lose some of their moorings. But of course, they still remained great industrial powers. For Portugal, it was a starker loss, though their former African colonies undoubtedly had a more upbeat view of independence. ... Read more

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This volume (devoted to Portuguese translation) presents essays on the growing emphasis within linguistics on the study of discourse and the need for full communicative competence, and the problem of evaluating rather than just describing language performance. ... Read more