| Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature: Volume 7 Contributor(s): Silva, Reinaldo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933227184 ISBN-13: 9781933227184 Publisher: Tagus Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2007030043 |
| Series: Portuguese in the Americas |
| Physical Information: 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 considerations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century canonical writers such as Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London, and Edith Wharton, to present-day Portuguese-Americans such as Julian Silva, Frank X. Gaspar, Katherine Vaz, and Charles Reis Felix, Reinaldo Silva applies recent theories of ethnicity and race to examine cultural and historical realities as well as authorial intentions, both conscious and unconscious. In so doing, he provides students of Portuguese-American culture and history valuable guidance toward a more comprehensive understanding of the place the Portuguese have occupied in American literature. |
