| Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup: Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America Contributor(s): Blayer, Irene Maria F. (Other), Scott, Dulce Maria (Other), Monteiro, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433138107 ISBN-13: 9781433138102 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $114.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Foreign Language Study | German - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2016058431 |
| Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 terms (portugee, Gee), beau ideal heroes (John Philip Sousa, John Dos Passos, and Peter Francisco), now forgotten early emigrants, foreign visitors to the Azores (Samuel Longfellow and Thomas Wentworth Higginson), proverbs from the oral and literary traditions, the Portuguese sailor on American ships, and the saga of English As She Is Spoke, a serious-minded textbook that became a comic phenomenon. |
