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Description:Edição bilingueTales of Rural Portugal, the first volume in the bilingual series “Portuguese Insights”, contains a selection of twelve stories from Outros Contos da Montanha, authored by Isabel Mateus and now translated into English by Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta (University of Birmingham, UK), who has already published translations of Miguel Torga and Manuel da Fonseca, among others.The stories, set in or around the village of Granja, have been chosen because of the privileged insights they offer into life in rural Portugal, during and after the Estado Novo, and their focus on the role and status of women in a society characterized by its age-old patriarchal structure. Only two of the stories included in this compilation narrate the lives of male protagonists, but are of equal interest because of the light they shed on the unrelenting hardships of rural life, the solutions adopted to combat endemic poverty or individual responses to social change.These stories are undoubtedly interesting from an historical or a quasi-ethnographical perspective, or they may be enjoyed as the life narratives of these women and men who are obliged to make the best of permanently challenging circumstances, yet continue to triumph in the face of adversity. Notwithstanding the occasional allusions to historical events, all of them possess a curiously timeless quality, due perhaps to the constant emphasis on eternal human concerns and values, among which we might single out the binary opposites of love and loss, birth and death, greed and generosity, as well as the embracing of social responsibility and mutual assistance, the importance of family, close and extended, loyalty, the virtue of self reliance and remaining true to oneself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contos do Portugal Rural - Tales of Rural Portugal. To get started finding Contos do Portugal Rural - Tales of Rural Portugal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 136

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2012

ISBN: 9726035287

Description: Edição bilingueTales of Rural Portugal, the first volume in the bilingual series “Portuguese Insights”, contains a selection of twelve stories from Outros Contos da Montanha, authored by Isabel Mateus and now translated into English by Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta (University of Birmingham, UK), who has already published translations of Miguel Torga and Manuel da Fonseca, among others.The stories, set in or around the village of Granja, have been chosen because of the privileged insights they offer into life in rural Portugal, during and after the Estado Novo, and their focus on the role and status of women in a society characterized by its age-old patriarchal structure. Only two of the stories included in this compilation narrate the lives of male protagonists, but are of equal interest because of the light they shed on the unrelenting hardships of rural life, the solutions adopted to combat endemic poverty or individual responses to social change.These stories are undoubtedly interesting from an historical or a quasi-ethnographical perspective, or they may be enjoyed as the life narratives of these women and men who are obliged to make the best of permanently challenging circumstances, yet continue to triumph in the face of adversity. Notwithstanding the occasional allusions to historical events, all of them possess a curiously timeless quality, due perhaps to the constant emphasis on eternal human concerns and values, among which we might single out the binary opposites of love and loss, birth and death, greed and generosity, as well as the embracing of social responsibility and mutual assistance, the importance of family, close and extended, loyalty, the virtue of self reliance and remaining true to oneself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contos do Portugal Rural - Tales of Rural Portugal. To get started finding Contos do Portugal Rural - Tales of Rural Portugal, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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