Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today

Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today
Author: Christopher Larkosh
Publisher: Portuguese Literary and Cultur
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781933227887

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"This issue is dedicated primarily to Luso-American literatures and cultures from across the US, Canada and the Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from both within and beyond the current set of canonical reference points. Articles on the cultures of southeastern New England are joined by others that focus on Montreal, Barbados, and Curaçao. This issue also features literary contributions from urban centers such as Toronto, San Francisco and Vancouver, as well as authors whose work can be said to be in transit between North America and disparate points in the Lusophone Atlantic (continental Portugal, the Azores, Cabo Verde)."--Publisher's description.

Luso-American Literature

Luso-American Literature
Author: Robert Henry Moser
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0813550572

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Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants have had a significant presence in North America since the nineteenth century. Recently, Brazilians have also established vibrant communities in the U.S. This anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the writings of these diverse Portuguese-speaking, or "Luso-American" voices. Historically linked by language, colonial experience, and cultural influence, yet ethnically distinct, Luso-Americans have often been labeled an "invisible minority." This collection seeks to address this lacuna, with a broad mosaic of prose, poetry, essays, memoir, and other writings by more than fifty prominent literary figures--immigrants and their descendants, as well as exiles and sojourners. It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant experience.

Portuguese American Literature

Portuguese American Literature
Author: Reinaldo Francisco Silva
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847601081

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Literature written in English by American writers of Portuguese descent has come of age with the acclaimed work of Frank Gaspar and Katherine Vaz. This study attempts to explore America's understanding of its ethnic minorities, and the writers' own ethnic pride and celebration of their roots. It includes a full length analysis of works by Thomas Braga, Julian Silva, Alfred Lewis, Charles Felix and other voices. Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Francisco Silva emigrated to America in 1967 at age 6, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He has lectured at Rutgers University, New York University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Seton Hall University, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His book, Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature was published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008. This title is available as a PDF ebook from Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk and for libraries from Ebrary, EBSCO and Ingram.

Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity

Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity
Author: Kimberly DaCosta Holton
Publisher: Tagus Press
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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Offers insight into the histories, cultures, and social dynamics of Portuguese and other Lusophone and Luso-African of the northeastern seaboard of the U.S.

Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature

Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature
Author: Jerome Branche
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826264875

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"Branche examines a wide variety of Latin American literature and discourse to show the extent and range of racist sentiments throughout the culture. He argues that racism in the modern period (1415-1948) was a tool used to advance Spanish and Portuguese expansion, colonial enterprise, and the international development of capitalism"--Provided by publisher.

Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies

Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies
Author: Susan Larson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000456382

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This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. The chapters in this volume address How Cultural Studies is being practiced in the increasingly virtual mediascapes of the twenty-first century What happens to basic critical assumptions about culture and power after they have passed through the filter of Post-Colonial and Decolonial Studies of the Luso-Hispanic world How we understand the role of culture in light of recent experiences with radical demographic shifts, populism and civil unrest within Latin America, Iberian and the Latino U.S How new ways of practising Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies have worked their way into our pedagogy and the structure of the curriculum in the age of the increasingly privatized neoliberal university Providing keen insight and reflection on these questions, this volume is an essential read for scholars and students of Visual and Film Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Luso-Brazilian Studies, Language and Culture Pedagogy, Global Studies, and for anyone interested in Cultural Studies across the Luso-Hispanic world.

Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society

Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Author: Patricia Ventura
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030194701

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Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.

Beyond Tordesillas

Beyond Tordesillas
Author: Robert Patrick Newcomb
Publisher:
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017
Genre: Brazil
ISBN: 9780814213476

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In Beyond Tordesillas both young and established scholars forcefully challenge the disciplinary boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Instead, the volume's contributors reveal Iberian and Latin American cultures to be inherently transoceanic, and therefore best approached in comparative terms.

The City in American Literature and Culture

The City in American Literature and Culture
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher:
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108841961

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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.