There¿s No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those related to Portuguese America. Significant figures covered include John Dos Passos, Charles Reis Felix, Julian Silva, John Philip Sousa, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, James Merrill, and the Azorean John Francis, businessman, patron, and friend to the fabled Provincetown Players. Concluding essays scrutinize and judge the phenomenon of the Portuguese movie in the 1930s and 1940s, and trace the history of the tricky but persistently present Portuguese concept of saudade.

George Monteiro earned his A.B. and Ph.D. at Brown University, and his A.M. at Columbia University. His faculty appointments include Emeritus Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Portuguese at Brown University. He received an honorary D.H.L. from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is a member of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator with the grade of Commander. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has authored numerous books on American and Portuguese writers.

Preface - Pride and Prejudice - The March King - Poems, Persons, and Things - Fiction Writers - Weld Street Memories - Family Matters - Hostage to Fortune - Provincetown Laureate - Two Roads Diverged - Isolato in Manhattan - Canadian 'Gees - Life on the Tenth Island - A Passion for Thomas Wolfe - A Ballad about Stonington - The First 'Gees - Classic Novels in Translation - The Provincetown Go-Between - "Old-Country" Movies - Words Beget Dreams - No Word for Saudade - The Shiftless Azoreans - Biographical Note - Bibliography.