Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup: Persons, Names, Words, and Proverbs in Portuguese America by George Monteiro
Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas ( https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/78673 )
Executive Editors: Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott
- Hardcover: 254 pages
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers: New York, Oxford, Berne
New edition (Aug. 18 2017) - Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1433138107
- ISBN-13: 978-1433138102
Preface
– New Names in a New Country
– Stars and Stripes Forever
– Portingale to Portugee
– 150 Years of a Classic
– The All-Purpose Peter Francisco
– Higginson in the Azores
– Longfellow, Tutor to the Dabneys
– M. Borges, Boston Businessman
– Denizens of the Land of Nod
– Straight Writing, Crooked Lines
– Authenticity and Its Uses
– Let Them Eat Crab
– Some Say Adage, Some Say Saw
– Words Like Cherries
– At Aunt Rose’s
– Seaman Melville and Captain Macy on the Portuguese Whaler
– Nineteenth-Century Festivities in Halfmoon Bay
– Crowned at Pentecost
– Henry R. Lang on the Portuguese in New Bedford
– Record of Publication
– Biographical Note
– Bibliography
George Monteiro is a lifelong student and teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, contributing to the scholarship on numerous writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan. His latest book is Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed (McFarland, 2012).
