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https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/smiling-darkness
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Katharine F. Baker;
Bobby J. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Reinaldo F Silva, Ph.D.
Emanuel Melo
www.umass.edu Many people of Portuguese descent take pride in claiming that the word “saudade” is untranslatable. In reality, we come close with a melding of bittersweet nostalgia, bone-deep longing, and an endless yearning for what one can never have again—or indeed may never have had. Adelaide Freitas dipped her pen in saudade to tell of family separation and bonds that never loosen. |
