Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature
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American literature and minority voices
Anthropology
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authorial intention and cultural identity
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Charles Reis Felix fiction
contemporary Portuguese-American authors
cross-cultural literary analysis
cultural representation in U.S. literature
Edith Wharton and ethnicity
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ethnic identity in fiction
ethnic minority studies
ethnic studies in literature
ethnicity and narrative voice
ethnicity in American literature
Frank X. Gaspar works
Hawthorne and ethnicity
historical context of Portuguese immigration
immigrant identity in literature
immigrant literature studies
Jack London and minority perspectives
Julian Silva literary analysis
Katherine Vaz novels
Literary Criticism - American
literary theory and ethnicity
Mark Twain and cultural identity
Melville and immigrant representation
minority authors in American canon
Portuguese diaspora in literature
Portuguese heritage in U.S. fiction
Portuguese immigrant narratives
Portuguese in 19th-century literature
Portuguese in 20th-century literature
Portuguese-American authorship
Portuguese-American cultural contributions
Portuguese-American cultural expression
Portuguese-American cultural history
Portuguese-American literary criticism
Portuguese-American literary studies
Portuguese-American literature
Portuguese-American narrative traditions
Portuguese-American writing history
race and ethnicity in literature
representation of minorities in literature
representation of Portuguese in U.S. writing
Sociology
transgenerational immigrant stories
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- ISBN 9781933227184
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2008
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Silva immigrated to America in 1967 at age 6, settling in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated in both the United States and Portugal and holds dual citizenship. After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Coimbra in 1985, he earned an M.A. in English and American literature at Rutgers University-Newark in 1982 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1998. He has lectured at Rutgers, NYU, NJIT and Seton Hall, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His teaching and research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and contemporary ethnic literatures, with a special focus on Portuguese-American writers. He has published numerous articles and encyclopedia entries in American journals.
