Table of Contents -- Introduction ix -- PART I: Reading Literary Identities Within and without borders -- 1. António gedeão and Jorge de sena: Myth, Tradition, and the Poetics of diaspora Christopher Damien Auretta 3 -- 2. stories of Forgotten "gees": William s. Birge's Senhor Antone: A Tale of the Portuguese Colony Francisco Cota Fagundes 19 -- 3. Alfred Lewis and the American dream Frank F. Sousa 35 -- 4. her story vs. his story: narrating the Portuguese diaspora in the united states of America Reinaldo Silva 49 -- 5. Anthony de sa and the Paradoxes of Immigration Albert Braz 63 -- 6. diasporas of diasporas: Brian Castro's Shanghai Dancing David Brookshaw 77 -- 7. A Poetics of disquietude for gaspar's Tales of the soul Teresa F. A. Alves 83 -- PART II: Constructing/Constructed extra-literary identities home and abroad -- 8. home Away from home: Visual narratives of the Portuguese Court in Brazil Memory Holloway 101 -- 9. Brothers or strangers-The Construction of Identity discourses in Contemporary Luso-Brazilian Co-productions with Portuguese Migrating Characters Carolin Overhoff Ferreira 111 -- 10. Representations of Portuguese-speaking Immigrants in the united states: The Federal Writers' Project and the Farmer security Administration-office of War Information Collection Orquídea Moreira Ribeiro 126 -- 11. "going for a sunday drive": Angolan decolonization, Learning Whiteness and the Portuguese diaspora of south Africa Pamila Gupta 135 -- 12. "neither here nor There?" Conceptions of "home," Identity Constructions and the Transnational Lives of second generation Luso-Canadians and Luso-French in Portugal João Sardinha 153 -- 13. The Portuguese of the united states and self-employment: ethnic and Class Resources or opportunity structure? M. Glória de Sá 175.

14. Language, networks, and Identity in the Azorean diaspora: one Family's sociolinguistic Profile David J. Silva 187 -- 15. Portingale to Portugee-The genesis and history of the ethnic slur George Monteiro 205 -- Part III: Literary ethnic voices from the north american diaspora and beyond: Interview, essays, short story, poetry -- 16. "I Write nonfiction Fiction": An Interview with Charles Reis Felix Charles Reis Felix