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Margaret Mascarenhas
Margaret Mascarenhas (died 14 July 2019) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and independent curator. Born in the United States and of Goan origin, she spent some of her childhood years in Caracas, Venezuela.R. Benedito Ferrão, "The Other Black Ocean: Indo-Portuguese Slavery and Africanness Elsewhere in Margaret Mascarenhas's ''Skin''", ''Research in African Literatures'', 45. 3 (Fall 2014), 27-47 (p. 28). She died on 14 July 2019. Career She was the author of the novels ''Skin'' and ''The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos''. ''Skin'', a diasporic novel, moves from a bar in California to life in a Goan village and has formed part of the post-colonial academic discourse around the world since it was published by Penguin Books, Penguin in 2001. ''Skin'' has been described as a "story of a contemporary woman who traces her cross-continental family diaspora which originates with the Portuguese slave trade in India in the 17th century." It has been translated into French lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goan
Goans ( kok, गोंयकार, Romi Konkani: , pt, Goeses) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, who form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Indo-Portuguese, and Austro-Asiatic ethnic and/or linguistic ancestries. They speak different dialects of Konkani language natively, collectively known as Goan Konkani. "''Goanese"'' is an incorrect term for Goans. Language Goans are multilingual, but mainly speak the Konkani language, a Prakrit based language belonging to the Southern group of Indo-Aryan Languages. Various dialects of Konkani spoken by the Goans which include ''Bardezkari'', ''Saxtti'', ''Pednekari and'' ''Antruz''. The Konkani spoken by the Catholics is notably different from those of the Hindus, since it has a lot of Portuguese influence in its vocabulary. Konkani was suppressed for official documentation use only not for unofficial use under the Portuguese governance, playing a minor pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
