Intersecting diaspora boundaries
Subtitle: Portuguese contexts
By: edited by Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433130755; 9781453916001
Subjects: Portuguese; Immigrants in literature; Social aspects; History and criticism; American literature; Migrations; Emigration and immigration; Portuguese American authors; Portuguese literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Introduction; title: The turn to diaspora / Irene Maria F. Blayer and Dulce Maria Scott; title: Part Two. Identity spaces in intercultural crossings; title: The evolution of Portuguese identity in the post fifteenth century Jewish diaspora / Barry L. Stiefel; title: A precarious whiteness : exploring Australian cultural diversity through the legacies of the Portuguese Empire / Robert Mason; title: Behind the scenes : the cultural impact of the Portuguese on Trinidad & Tobago / Jo-Anne S. Ferreira; title: Alchemizing the masses : Alfred Mendes's early Barrack Yard narratives and the figure of the Dougla in Trinidad / Smita Das; title: Passages clandestins : de l'émigration clandestine à la résistance dans o Gaiteiro : le joueur de Cornemuse de Manuel da Silva / Martine Fernandes Wagner; title: Part Three. The diasporic imaginary : self, place, memory, and textualized identity; title: Taking stock of Portuguese-American literature / Frank Sousa; title: Shadows and radiance : the collapsed borders / Teresa Alves; title: Taking in air in Frank X. Gaspar's early poetry and how to translate its brea(d)th / Margarida Vale do Gato; title: Katherine Vaz's Lisbon story : representing place and cultural identity / Fernanda Luísa Feneja; title: Part Four. Interfacing literary dialogues; title: Representations of diaspora : contexts, paths, effects / Carlos Reis; title: The magnetic North and the Southern gardens in the poetry of Cesário Verde / Mario Higa; title: Crossing worlds : echoes of exile in the narratives of Maria Ondina Braga / Dora Nunes Gago; title: The Azorean heritage in Cecilia Meireles's writings : memory and imagination / Ana Maria Lisboa de Mello; title: Verbal acrobatics : word play and movement in Mário de Andrade's Paulicea Desvairada and Patrícia Galvão's Parque Industrial / Janelle Gondar; title: Sharing memories in translation : Ilse Losa's Portuguese translation of Anna Seghers's novel Der Ausflug der Toten Mädchen / Ana Isabel Marques.