Portuguese American Literature

By: Reinaldo Francisco Silva

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The book is the first in a new series of monographs entitled Contemporary American Literature. Chapters: 1. Locating the Portuguese within the Body of Emergent American Literatures; 2. America Through the Eyes of the Educated Immigrant: José Rodrigues Miguéis, Jorge de Sena and Onésimo T. Almeida; 3. Alfred Lewis as a Writer of Transition; 4. Lesser-Known American Voices of Portuguese Descent: Julian Silva, Thomas Braga and Charles Reis Felix; 5. Under the Spotlight of Critical Acclaim: The Writings of Frank Gaspar and Katherine Vaz Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Francisco Silva emigrated to America in 1967. He has lectured at Rutgers University, New York University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Seton Hall University, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His most recent book, Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature was published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008.