Rudyard Kipling and T. S. Eliot on the Portuguese in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i10.28171Keywords:
Portuguese Americans on the Screen, Portuguese Americans and Stereotypes, The Portuguese in Gloucester, Rudyard Kipling and the Portuguese, T. S. Eliot and the PortugueseAbstract
This essay focuses on the representations of the Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, by the acclaimed British Writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), during his so-called American phase, in 1892, that is, while he lived there for a spell, as well as the movie adaptation of his novel, Captains Courageous, and T. S. Eliot’s (1888-1965) recollections of this fishing town and beach resort while he vacationed there, and subsequently immortalized in The Four Quartets (1943).
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