Event

"Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis", lecture by Prof. Frank F. Sousa and launching of the new edition of Lewis's classic novel Home Is an Island

Prof. Sousa’s lecture will conclude with the launching of the new, hardbound edition of Alfred Lewis’s classic novel, Home Is an Island, originally published by the prestigious Random House Publishers in 1951. The novel received much critical acclaim, including two reviews in the New York Times, and was highly praised by the well-known American novelist Patricia Highsmith, who wrote, “One does not often find a novel that reads like a poem, that tells a simple story in a simple prose, and yet is heroic, a novel of importance.
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Announcement

Historical Portuguese Newspapers of California Digitized

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the addition of 14 Portuguese-language newspapers published in California between 1885 and 1940 to its Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections.
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Announcement

Publication of Home Is an Island by Alfred Lewis

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announces the publication of Home Is an Island by Alfred Lewis. This classic novel, originally published by Random House in 1951, has long been out of print. The Tagus Press cloth edition features a foreword by Congressman Devin Nunes and a preface by Frank F. Sousa.
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Launchings of Home Is an Island

Announcement

Admission and scholarship applications now open for the 19th Annual UMass Dartmouth Summer Program in Portuguese

The Portuguese language has one of the world's most culturally, ethnically and geographically diverse community of speakers, spread out as it is over every inhabited continent, on islands in the world's oceans, and in the world's most politically and economically important metropolitan areas. Speakers of Portuguese thus come into contact not only with speakers of other languages on a regular basis, but also are quite often speakers of other languages, dialects and Portuguese-based creoles themselves.
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Announcement

Scholarships to Study in Lisbon, European "City of the Year"

The UMass in Lisbon Study Abroad Program and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the creation of the Elisia and Mark Saab Study Abroad Scholarship Fund for Academic Years 2012-2015 in the amount of $30,000.
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