Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup

Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America

George Monteiro author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:18th Aug '17

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Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup cover

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 phenomenon.

ISBN: 9781433138102

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 480g

254 pages

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