Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup
Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America
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 seri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4331-3812-6
- EAN: 9781433138126
- Produktnummer: 28050803
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 583 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
George Monteiro earned his A.B. and Ph.D. at Brown University, and his A.M. at Columbia University. His faculty appointments include Emeritus Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Portuguese at Brown University. He received an honorary D.H.L. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is a member of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator with the grade of Commander. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has authored numerous books on American and Portuguese writers.
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