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Luso-American literature : writings by Portuguese-speaking authors in North America / edited and with an introduction by Robert Henry Moser and Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta ; foreword by George Monteiro.

Title: Luso-American literature : writings by Portuguese-speaking authors in North America / edited and with an introduction by Robert Henry Moser and Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta ; foreword by George Monteiro.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.

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xxxv, 375 pages; 27 cm

Summary

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 Unities States. 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 It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant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. Book jacket.

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Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas

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Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas

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Portuguese voices -- Brazilian voices -- Cape Verdean voices.

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2010048417

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