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'''Manuel C. Rodrigues''' (1908 – 1991) was an early [[Goans|Goan]] poet and writer, who expressed himself in the English language. He was also an artist, as well as a trained singer and conductor.<ref name="GoaStreets">{{cite web|last1=Perez|first1=Amy|title=The Rodrigues House|url=http://goastreets.com/rodrigues-house/|website=goastreets.com|publisher=Goa Streets|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref> He is also known as Manoel C. Rodrigues.<br />
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==Selected works==<br />
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===Verse===<br />
* '''Selected Poems''', Bombay 1978. Rs 10.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Noronha|first1=Frederick|title=Fiction and literature from Goa… a 1996 article|url=https://goabooks.wordpress.com/1996/08/12/a-selection-of-fictional-books-and-literature-on-goa/|website=goabooks.wordpress.com|date=12 August 1996 |publisher=GoaBooks|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref><br />
* '''Homeward''', G. V. Bhave, 1939.<br />
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===Short stories===<br />
* '''Still-life and other stories''', ''Coastal Observer'', 1984.<br />
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===Essays, etc===<br />
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* 'Armando Menezes: The Lyrist, A fundamentally religious poet'. ''The Goan World'', Bombay, Jan. 1939, 31.<br />
* 'Mar-Jakin', ''Goa Today'', August 1976.<br />
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==References to work==<br />
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Critic and Professor at the Department of English, University of Iowa, Peter Nazareth<ref>{{cite web|title=Peter Nazareth, professor|url=https://english.uiowa.edu/people/peter-nazareth|website=english.uiowa.edu|publisher=University of Iowa|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref> list his work in the context of his (Nazareth's) experiences while creating an early (1983) anthology of Goan literature.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nazareth |first1=Peter |title=Alienation, Nostalgia, and Homecoming: Editing an Anthology of Goan Literature |jstor=40140844 |journal=World Literature Today |volume=59 |issue=3 |date=Summer 1985 |pages=374–382|doi=10.2307/40140844 }}</ref><br />
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In his essay on nostalgia, the lament of the "Goan exile" and the "search of a Goan self", the late Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Washington DC, Eusebio C. Rodrigues has referred to his work, saying he (Manuel C. Rodrigues) "has two collections of poems with significant titles: ''Songs in Exile'' and ''Homeward''."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rodrigues|first1=Eusebio L.|title=Nostalgia and a Lament of a Goan Exile or in Search of Goan Self|url=http://www.goanvoice.ca/2014/issue17/ref/WGD2014.pdf|website=goanvoice.ca|publisher=Originally: South Asian Studies Papers, No. 9, University of Toronto, 1995|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref><br />
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Writing in an essay titled 'Saudades and the Goan Poetic Temper: Globalising Goan Cultural History', in the book ''Goa and Portugal: History and Development'',''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Borges |display-authors=etal |first1=Charles J.|title=Goa and Portugal: History and Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=diISslZgIAkC&q=manuel++rodrigues+poet+goa&pg=PA319|publisher=Concept, New Delhi|access-date=2 March 2017|page=322|format=Print|isbn=9788170228677|year=2000}}</ref>'' Victor Anand Coelho,<ref>{{cite web|title=Victor Coelho: Academic Profile|url=http://people.bu.edu/blues/academic.html|website=bu.edu|publisher=Boston University|access-date=2 March 2017}}</ref> Professor of Music and Chairman of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University, writes: "...[[George C. Coelho]] probed other things within this rich corpus of poetry such as nostalgia which manifests in [Goan] Christian poets like [[Armando Menezes]] (1902–83), Manoel C. Rodrigues (1908–91) and [[Joseph Furtado]] (1872–1947) and the theme of exile which carries with it the theme of longing for homeland and voyage, but also takes on a political function."<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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His two-centuries old family home is located in the coastal village turned tourist-destination of [[Calangute]] just off the [[Baga, Goa|Baga]]-[[Calangute]] Road near the Our Lady of Piety Chapel.<ref name="GoaStreets" /><br />
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His brother, the much-awarded [[Olimpio Coleto Rodrigues]], who was born in 1915, is also considered to be a world renowned Goan artist and avid collector of antique furniture and objects who "Indianised" Christian Art. According to media reports, in 1950 he was awarded the opportunity to paint a fresco just 200 yards from the [[Sistine Chapel]] within the [[Vatican City|Vatican]].<ref name="GoaStreets" /><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1908 births]]<br />
[[Category:1991 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Goa]]<br />
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