The book is the first in a new series of monographs entitled Contemporary American Literature
About the author
Born in Portugal in 1961, Reinaldo Francisco Silva emigrated to America in 1967. He has lectured at Rutgers University, New York University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Seton Hall University, and is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. His most recent book, Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature was published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2008.