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The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson Dec 1997

The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

Once a year, the Brazilians who live in the Boston area come together at St. Anthony Church in Cambridge to celebrate the festival of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady who has Appeared), view the statue of the Virgin Mary that has brought miracles to the people of Brazil, and honor to this patroness. The festival, attended by hundreds, is primarily religious but also seems to have important cultural aspects. Is there a Brazilian community? If so, what role does this festival play? The researcher attended the festival in 1997, providing questionnaires in Portuguese and English, taking photographs, and arranging to …


Zora Neale Hurston And The Post-Modern Self In 'Dust Tracks On A Road', Pierre A. Walker Dec 1997

Zora Neale Hurston And The Post-Modern Self In 'Dust Tracks On A Road', Pierre A. Walker

Pierre Walker

Zora Neale Hurston's 1942 autobiography 'Dust Tracks on a Road' received negative criticisms from even her most ardent admirers. Literary critics lambasted the book for its apparent unreliability, assimilationist racial politics and inconsistent or fragmentary nature. While these criticisms about 'Dust Tracks on a Road' are valid, readers can appreciate the book from a post-structuralist point of view. 'Dust Tracks' portrays Hurston as an individual with many moods who is in conflict with the world in which she lives and who resists reduction to a coherent, consistent unity.