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Author:   Francisco Cota Fagundes ,  Irene Maria F. Blayer ,  Teresa F.A. Alves
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   194
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781433114304

ISBN 10:   1433114305
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   23 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Contents: Christopher Damien Auretta: António Gedeão and Jorge de Sena: Myth, Tradition, and the Poetics of Diaspora – Francisco Cota Fagundes: Stories of Forgotten «Gees»: William S. Birge’s Senhor Antone: A Tale of the Portuguese Colony – Frank F. Sousa: Alfred Lewis and the American Dream – Reinaldo Silva: Her Story vs. His Story: Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States of America – Albert Braz: Anthony De Sa and the Paradoxes of Immigration – David Brookshaw: Diasporas of Diasporas: Brian Castro’s Shanghai Dancing – Teresa F. A. Alves: A Poetics of Disquietude for Gaspar’s Tales of the Soul – Memory Holloway: Home Away from Home: Visual Narratives of the Portugues Court in Brazil – Carolin Overhoff Ferreira: Brothers or Strangers - The Construction of Identity Discourses in Contemporary Luso-Brazilian Co-productions with Portuguese Migrating Characters – Orquídea Moreira Ribeiro: Representations of Portuguese-speaking Immigrants in the United States: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Farmer Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection – Pamila Gupta: «Going for a Sunday Drive»: Angolan Decolonization, Learning Whiteness and the Portuguese Diaspora of South Africa – João Sardinha: «Neither Here nor There?» Conceptions of «Home,» Identity Constructions and the Transnational Lives of Second Generation Luso-Canadians and Luso-French in Portugal – M. Glória de Sá: The Portuguese of the United States and Self-employment: Ethnic and Class Resources or Opportunity Structure? – David J. Silva: Language, Networks, and Identity in the Azorean Diaspora: One Family’s Sociolinguistic Profile – George Monteiro: Portingale to Portugee - The Genesis and History of the Ethnic Slur – Francisco Cota Fagundes: «I Write Nonfiction Fiction»: An Interview with Charles Reis Felix – Alexandre Quintanilha: Crossing diasporas – Julian Silva: A Portuguese Heritage and Twice a Cousin: A Family Portrait – Anthony De Sa: Personal Reflection: The Need to Look Back – Frank X. Gaspar: Poems – Ana Cristina Alves: A Meditation on Diaspora.

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Francisco Cota Fagundes holds a PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures and is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Irene Maria F. Blayer holds a PhD in linguistics and is Professor of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Humanities, Brock University, Canada. Teresa F. A. Alves is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lisbon Center for English Studies - ULICES. Teresa Cid is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lisbon, Department of English.

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