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03077aam a2200397 i 4500 001 8DEA08A8840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170113s2017 nyu b 000 0deng 010 $a 2016058431 020 $a 1433138107 020 $a 9781433138102 035 $a (OCoLC)969438829 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d DLC $d NJR $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-po--- $a e-po--- 050 00 $a E184.P8 $b M65 2017 082 00 $a 305.896/91073 $2 23 100 1 $a Monteiro, George, $e author. 245 10 $a Caldo verde is not stone soup : $b persons, names, words, and proverbs in Portuguese America / $c written by George Monteiro. 264 1 $a New York ; $b Peter Lang, $c [2017] 300 $a xIII, 253 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Interdisciplinary studies in diasporas, $x 2378-0975 ; $v vol. 5 520 2 $a "The essays in Caldo Verde is Not Duck Soup identify elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. It tackles subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of that 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 How She is Spoke, a serious-minded textbook that became a comic phenomenon"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253). 505 0 $a Part One. Names and words -- New names in a new country -- Stars and stripes forever -- Portingale to Portugee -- 150 years of a classic -- Part Two. Persons -- The all-purpose Peter Francisco -- Higginson in the Azores -- Longfellow, tutor to the Dabneys -- M. Borges, Boston businessman -- Denizens of the Land of Nod -- Part Three. Proverbs -- Straight writing, crooked lines -- Authenticity and its uses -- Let them eat crab -- Some say adage, some say saw -- Words like cherries -- Part Four. Collecting -- At Aunt Rose's -- Part Five. Texts -- 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. 650 0 $a Portuguese Americans $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Portuguese Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Portuguese Americans $x Languages. 650 0 $a Names, Personal $z United States. 650 0 $a Proverbs, Portuguese $z United States. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Monteiro, George. $t Caldo verde is not stone soup. $d New York : Peter Lang, [2017] $z 9781433138119 $w (DLC) 2017002869 830 0 $a Interdisciplinary studies in diasporas ; $v vol. 5. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025754.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8DEA08A8840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search