From a Man without a Country to an American by ChoiceJohn Dos Passos and Migration

“This well-illustrated book, written in an approachable style, summaries almost a decade of research by Miguel Oliveira on John Dos Passos’ life and work. The study gives a thorough examination on how John Dos Passos associates to the migration problem and touches on topics including North America’s settlement, slavery, the emancipation of slaves, segregation, international and transit migrations, internal migration, non-migration, military migration during WWI, the Spanish Civil War and WWII, the situation of DP’s in the immediate postwar eras, the Parisian expatriate movement, and the migration problems throughout Latin America and Europe. Oliveira provides an enthralling reflection on the whole matter and brings forth an insightful analysis that is supplemented with extensive bibliography, a preface by Prof. Dr. Teresa Cid of the University of Lisbon, a carefully balanced theoretical and historical background on migration, biographical and migration related chronologies, appendices (which include new documents, as well as short descriptions on John Dos Passos’ writing), as well as inedited drawings, and photographs of John Dos Passos. As a result, this first-class analysis becomes an important casebook on Humanities, imperative to American Literature, Sociology and History.” Dr. Susana de Abreu