Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America

Name: Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America
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ISBN: 9781433138119

ISBN-10: 1433138115

ISBN-13: 9781433138119

Edition: 2017

Authors: George Monteiro

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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 serious-minded textbook that became a comic…

Book details

Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 8/31/2017
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 254
Language: English