"Hybrid Identity and the Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis"

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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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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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

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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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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Tagus Press is the publishing arm of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, a multidisciplinary international studies and outreach division devoted to the language, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.

List of Spring Lectures Announced

New theme and courses announced for the 2012 Summer Program in Portuguese

For more information related to the Ferreira Mendes Portuguese- American Archives
