The Portuguese Diaspora has left indelible marks on the literature it has produced even though few texts, let alone short story collections, have found their way into the fashionable criticism of canonized hyphenated literatures studied in short story studies. And yet, from its first manifestations still fully written in the Portuguese language ( José Rodrigues Migéis, e.g.) to the recent success of such writers as Anthony da Sa and Katharina Vaz, the short story cycle has played a pivotal role, not fully studied per se. The short story cycle or the collection of interlinked stories, or even the novel in stories, might be the unperceived and under valued genre produced by Portuguese writers living in the U.S.A.

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