The Poems of Renata Ferreira

Frank X Gaspar

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Renata Ferreira's poems were composed in the final years of Portugal's fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government's draconian edicts again... Lees meer

Behind the Stars, More Stars

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Presenting experimental and boundary-breaking prose from women, people of color, and LGBTQ writers, Behind the Stars, More Stars imagines a more diver... Lees meer

Leaving Pico

Frank X Gaspar

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• In the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown, Josie Carvalho's life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his gre... Lees meer

Portuguese-Americans and Contemporary Civic Culture in Massachusetts, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 1
• A collected volume on the political perspectives of Portuguese-Americans in Massachusetts that examines attitudes to such key issues as education and ... Lees meer

Another City Upon a Hill

Joseph a Conforti

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• This gripping memoir is both a personal story and a portrait of a distinctive New England place--Fall River, Massachusetts, once the cotton cloth capi... Lees meer

The Marriage of the Portuguese, 1

Sam Pereira

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 16
• In this newly expanded edition of The Marriage of the Portuguese , first published in 1978, Sam Pereira encounters the world as it exists now, three d... Lees meer

Tony

Charles Reis Felix

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 10
• Tony: A New England Boyhood is an autobiographical novel about growing up in Gaw (New Bedford), Massachusetts in the 1930s much in the same way that T... Lees meer

Distant Music, 6

Julian Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Two discretely shaped yet interdependent narratives creating a family saga from the viewpoints of both maternal and paternal lines (a difficult and ra... Lees meer

Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States

João Leal

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 14
• This comparative investigation of Azorean identity formation in southern Brazil and southeastern New England explores how immigrants and their descend... Lees meer

Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, 7

Reinaldo Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Characterized as the silent minority, the Portuguese have had a varied and checkered presence in American literature. Representations of the Portugues... Lees meer

Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934, 5

Charles Reis Felix

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 is the story of an election for mayor in a Massachusetts mill town in 1934 as seen through the eyes of a... Lees meer

Move Over, Scopes, 1

Julian Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 15
• Move Over, Scopes and Other Writings both extends Julian Silva's richly-textured portrait of Portuguese-American community life in his narrative dipty... Lees meer

In Pursuit of Their Dreams, 3

Jerry R Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Jerry Williams' history of Azorean immigration to the United States offers us valuable insight into the experience and culture of Portuguese immigrant... Lees meer

The Holyoke, 8

Frank X Gaspar

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• 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 d... Lees meer

Return Flights

Jarita Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• These poems--varying from narrative to imagist to lyrical--reflect the sodade of Cape Verdean culture that is shaped by separation and longing--longin... Lees meer

So Ends This Day, 1

Donald Warrin

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 13
• In the first half of the nineteenth century whaling was one of the young American nation's most important industries, providing lubricants and illumin... Lees meer

Sixty Acres and a Barn

Alfred Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Sixty Acres and a Barn tells the captivating coming-of-age story of Luis Sarmento, an immigrant from the Azores who finds in America tolerance, prospe... Lees meer

The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales

Darrell Kastin

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 19
• Winner of the Best USA Book Awards, Fiction: Multicultural category (2014) Born from the fertile volcanic soil and the sea and mists surrounding the A... Lees meer

Almost Gone

Brian Sousa

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 20
• Brian Sousa leaves sentiment and saudade behind in Almost Gone , a linked collection spanning four generations of a Portuguese immigrant family. In th... Lees meer

Land, as Far as the Eye Can See

Donald Warrin, Geoffrey L Gomes

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 21
• This book weaves the tale of enterprising Portuguese immigrants into the wider story of the Old West. Its biographies range from detailed profiles of ... Lees meer

Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity, 1

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 11
• Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity brings together explorations of Portuguese as well as other Lusophone and Luso-African populations that... Lees meer

Through a Portagee Gate, 2

Charles Reis Felix

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Through a Portagee Gate is both an autobiography and a biography. It gives a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author's ... Lees meer

Land of Milk and Money, 1

Anthony Barcellos

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas | nr. 18
• Land of Milk and Money tells the story of the Francisco family, Portuguese immigrants who build a prosperous California dairy farm. With their growing... Lees meer

Happy People in Tears

João de Melo

• Paperback | Engels | Portuguese in the Americas
• Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds--the island home of São Miguel, mainl... Lees meer