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A collection of innovative and insightful essays providing a critical and theoretical reflection on the concept and history of Lusofonia|

A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story

Alternately gritty, suspenseful, and illuminating, Brian Sousa's debut collection of interlocking stories depicts the Portuguese American experience from a new perspective

The present volume features an array of essays on some of L¿a Jorge's best-known fiction. Special attention is devoted here to A Costa dos Murm¿rios, undoubtedly her most celebrated novel at home and abroad. The importance of its central theme-a personal recollection of colonial wartime in Mozambique that engages in dialogue with the highly fictionalized account featured at the outset of the book-would amply suffice to justify the interest it ...

An entertaining and innovative account of pioneering Portuguese men and women who settled the vast frontier of the American West

Jerry Williams' history of Azorean immigration to the United States offers us valuable insight into the experience and culture of Portuguese immigrants and their descendents. This account fills a major gap in American immigration history and gives us a comprehensive overview of how Portuguese-Americans--now numbering close to a million people--have come to constitute a vibrant and highly visible presence within southeastern New England, the ar...

A collection of scholars from Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain writing about Cape Verde

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Leading scholars from around the world reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation historically beset by strife and oppression

A collection of provocative and insightful essays by leading scholars on Portugal's foremost living novelist, Antonio Lobo Antunes

An intriguing comparison of identity formation among Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands and their descendants in Brazil and the U.S.

The first bilingual edition in English to offer a cross-section of lyric poetry by Portugal's Luís de Camões

An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library

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A western, agrarian novel that conjures the world of the small dairy farms of California and the Portuguese immigrants who worked them

A collection of provocative and insightful essays on the representations of money in Brazil and the Lusophone world

A turning point for Cape Verdean American culture, one in which a partially forgotten past becomes a starting point for possible futures

Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, E¿de Queir¿s's novella, Saint Christopher, is a powerful indictment of those who profess the value of morality but who do not practice it. The narrative is just as relevant today - when issues of religion, hypocrisy, and social justice are more urgent than ever - as it was when it first appeared in 1912. Written as though it were the product of a dialogue between Jesus and Prou...

An award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds - the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada - experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine.

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