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Ethnic Studies Review

2008

Azores

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The Tastes From Portugal: Food As Remembrance In Portuguese American Literature, Reinaldo Silva Jan 2008

The Tastes From Portugal: Food As Remembrance In Portuguese American Literature, Reinaldo Silva

Ethnic Studies Review

Contemporary Portuguese American literature written by Thomas Braga (1943-), Frank Gaspar (1946-), and Katherine Vaz (1955-) share a profusion of topics - with ethnic food being, perhaps, the most representative one. What these writers have in common is that their roots can be traced to Portugal's Atlantic islands - the Azores - and not to continental Portugal. They are native Americans and write in English, though their characters and themes are Portuguese American. Some of them lived close to the former New England whaling and fishing centers of New Bedford and Nantucket, which Herman Melville has immortalized in Moby-Dick and …