Da Gama, Cary Grant and the Election of 1934, by Charles Reis Felix: The Portuguese Exodus on the American East–Coast

• Autor(a) principal: Van Achter, Erik
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i13.4759

Contrary to what happens in the Bible, where “the Passover” takes up the major part of the story, in Charles Felix Reis’ collection of stories Da Gama, Gary Grant and the Election of 1934, it is the settling itself which is carefully mapped: what after Exodus? What if many undertook the same Exodus, pretending to have the same rights? How should one live together and should one stay true to the identity ( the original Ten Commandments) developed before the Exodus, or assume a new identity valid only in the promised land? What does it mean in present – day America for a smaller ethnicity (the Portuguese) to live on Canaan’s side? And how is the status of “the land of milk and honey” which the USA has promoted for centuries assessed by various European emigrants while the memory of their very own Ten Commandments, however vague, is still lingering on?