Re: [Goanet] An Ode to Joseph Furtado (by Augusto Pinto)

[Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या]

2009/3/31 Hartman de Souza hartman.deso...@gmail.com

 Derek Antao was a legendary English teacher at SIES College, Mumbai, and a
 well known playwright of the late 60s and early 70s whose plays were
 published in a little theatre journal coming out of Delhi, called Enact.

 I would appreciate some information on Derek Antao and a chance to stage a
 retrospective of his plays.

Google, of course!

Derek Antao was published by Writer's Workshop, the P.Lal-run
Calcutta-based one man organisation that published nearly 3000 books
in its lifetime. (Some people I know dismiss it as a vanity publishing
 outfit, yet so many Goan writers got their early breaks there... or
would have died unsung.)

The Open Library [http://openlibrary.org/] is another interesting
venture, which allows us to honour Goa's achievers in the written
word. Please see the links to Antao there (still awaiting completion):

Give us this day a black sheep
by Derek Antao
Published in 1980, Writers Workshop, sole agents, Indus (Calcutta,
Glastonbury, Conn)
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3927430M/Give-us-this-day-a-black-sheep

Derek Antao
[edit]  1936 - 2002
Derek Antao, dramatist, retired as Head of the Department of English,
SIES College of Arts and Science, University of Mumbai, in 1996.
Author of 14 plays, of which one has been published by the Writers
Workshop (Give Us This Day Our Black Sheep) and Acushla, was published
in the magazine Enact. His plays include Requiem For a Professor, Rock
a Bye My Broken Doll, Vannakam Appa, And Then - Diwali, Let There Be
Light, Cogito Ergo Sum, Yellow Fever, College I see You as an Open
Mouth, Tabula Rasa, Autumn Serenade and Faria.Most of these plays,
except the two published ones cited above exist only as Manuscripts. A
Brief Review of some of his plays has appeared in the Journal of the
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (JSL), Spring 2007.
http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1598465A/Derek-Antao

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Re: [Goanet] An Ode to Joseph Furtado (by Augusto Pinto)

[Jose Pereira]

Joseph Furtado [1841-1947], it needs to be noted, was a pioneer not only in his 
use 
of English, but also as one of the first, if not the very first,  inquirers 
into the 
nature of the Goan identity. Writing in the twenties, Furtado observed that 
None 
of our poets has been Goan in his poetic compositions. Paulino Dias [1874-1919] 
and 
Nascimento Mendonça [1884-1926] were more Indian than Goan. As for me, I am 
still a 
beginner in the Portuguese language; the verses here do not pass for more than 
mere 
humorous attempts. However my book,  Goan Fiddler [1927]... contains many 
serious 
verses in English on Goan matters. Let my fellow-countrymen write sincerely and 
well 
on our native subjects, and I assure them a sure reputation. Why do they wish 
to 
cross oceans in search of subjects? [Porque é que querem atravessar oceanos em 
busca 
de assuntos?] Principais poetas goanos (um estudo critico), 1927.  Or, as he 
remarks in another place, Faltam assuntos? Certamente não[Are subjects 
lacking ? 
Certainly  not]!

José Pereira. 

Re: [Goanet] An Ode to Joseph Furtado (by Augusto Pinto)

[Silvia Bragan�a]

Nice to know Joseph Furtado, a poet .

Thanks,

silvia