Return flights / / Jarita Davis

• Autore: Davis Jarita
• Pubblicazione: Dartmouth, Massachusetts : , : Tagus Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (90 p.)
• Disciplina: 869.0996658
• Soggetto topico: Cabo Verdean literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A turning point for Cape Verdean American culture, one in which a partially forgotten past becomes a starting point for possible futures
• Titolo autorizzato: Return flights
• ISBN: 1-933227-68-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824814703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Portuguese in the Americas series.