Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup
Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Foreign Languages, German, Language Arts
| Author: | George Monteiro | ISBN: | 9781433138126 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang | Publication: | August 31, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers | Language: | English |
| Author: | George Monteiro |
| ISBN: | 9781433138126 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Publication: | August 31, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
