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Full-Text Articles in Portuguese Literature
Political Processes Of Displacement In Infrastructure Development: The Case Of Aldeia Da Luz And The Alqueva Dam, Cordelia Walz
Political Processes Of Displacement In Infrastructure Development: The Case Of Aldeia Da Luz And The Alqueva Dam, Cordelia Walz
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
In 2002, the residents of Aldeia da Luz left their village for the final time, displaced to make room for the Alqueva Dam, a massive regional hydropower and irrigation project almost half a century in the making. The Alqueva Multipurpose Project was marketed by the Portuguese government as a way to develop the impoverished region of the Alentejo and bring innovation to the agricultural sector. The village of Luz was the only physical obstacle to this goal and, therefore, its residents were dispossessed, sacrificed for the development of the greater Alentejo region. However, unlike many other large-scale infrastructure projects that …
Re-Reading Alencar's Iracema Through Saer's Lens, Felicia Trievel
Re-Reading Alencar's Iracema Through Saer's Lens, Felicia Trievel
Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture
Abstract:
The topic of European colonization is one that is discussed frequently throughout Latin American literature in a variety of different manners. Two books that discuss the colonization of different countries in extremely different ways are Iracema (1865) by José de Alencar and El entenado (1983) by Juan José Saer. The former examines the colonization of Brazil by Portuguese colonists, taking away much of the culture of the indigenous people previously inhabiting Brazil. El entenado examines the colonization of Argentina by the Spaniards. When one reads these two novels it is impossible not to compare the two due to the …
Portuguese 1010. Syllabus, Luis Enrique Escamilla Frias Sr.
Portuguese 1010. Syllabus, Luis Enrique Escamilla Frias Sr.
Open Educational Resources
This syllabus, designed to be widely used throughout CUNY system, is focused in providing the chance for students and teachers of Portuguese to have classes without using costly books. Quite the contrary, this syllabus has been designed in order to provide a guide to use Bate-Papo book [a one hundred percent open educational resource], throughout sixteen weeks, that is to say, during the normal period of a course in CUNY colleges in both summer and fall.
Moreover, the syllabus contemplates the using of a platform for students to practice. Such a website is also OER and has been indicated in …
Poems And Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan
Poems And Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This document is separated into two parts, a collection of original poems and a collection of translations of the crônicas of Rubem Braga. The collection of poems, titled, “Because I Never See You,” attempt to parse the complexities of familial and intimate relationships, addiction, and BIPOC experience. The collection of translations attempts to offer a small sample of the crônicas of Rubem Braga (1913-1990), a Brazilian journalist who is known throughout Brazil for “elevating” the form of the crônica from ephemera to the literary.