ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the migratory flow had begun to diminish and knew that the transformation of the community would proceed apace, the logical conclusion would be that the children of emigrants would eventually become Americans—albeit hyphenated Luso-Americans. The first was Laura Bulger’s Vaivem, a double novelty since she was both the first Canadian and also the first woman from the North American diaspora to fictionalize immigrant issues. Vestiges of the American experience of Alberto de Lacerda—one of the major poets of his Portuguese generation—who has lived in the United States since the sixties can be found in his Oferenda-II. In prose there is Katherine Vaz, whose novel was acclaimed as the first great contemporary work in American literature originating from someone from Portuguese descendency. Diane Ravitch declared that the American paradox consisted of the fact that the country has a common culture, but it is a culture that is multicultural.
