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Davis Jarita |
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Titolo |
Return flights / / Jarita Davis |
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Dartmouth, Massachusetts : , : Tagus Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (90 p.) |
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Collana |
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Portuguese in the Americas series |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1; Dreaming in Crioulo, or Why I Romanticize the Old Country; Joseph Silva Barboza, a Portrait; Another Homecoming; Dress Whites; Ana Left the Old Country; The Children, Their Darkness; Defining the Morna; While Listening to Cesaria Evora; Atlantic Coasts; Corn; Return Flights; Part 2; The Woman Who Cleans Fish; The Wedding Feast, Brava 1926; Harvesting a Return; Alone in Plymouth; Swimming Lessons; Nantucket Sleigh Ride; The Scrimshander; Part 3; One Criolinha Speaks; You Cannot Prepare for This Trip; Impressions in Stone; Arrival |
At Midnight You Board the Boat to BravaThe Rainy Season; Meeting Mano and Mãe Vinda; This Is Someone Else's Life; We Four Harvest Mangoes; Mangoes; I Am Twenty-eight Today; In the Field; Santa Maria das Dores, Sal; That Last Night; Departure; Cape Verde Has Been Slipping from Me; Part 4; Vista from the Schoolhouse Steps; Djiny Describes the Festival of São João; Tonight; Seven Hesitations of Maria DeSilva; Sara Andrade Lobo, Age Seven; Each Evening; José Fishing in Fajã d'Água; Acknowledgments; Glossary |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A turning point for Cape Verdean American culture, one in which a partially forgotten past becomes a starting point for possible futures |
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