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The French-Canadian Heritage of Jack Kerouac as Seen in His Autobiographical Works
Author: Woolfson, PeterDate: 1976 SummerLanguage : enFind in a library: 42960124Critical essay exploring some of the cultural values and worldviews perceived in the contexts and characters of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction. Considers concepts of work, sin, individualism, and time, in particular, as supported in cultural research on certain aspects of French Canadian heritage. <br /><br /> From the author: "The purpose of this paper is to examine the biographically oriented works of Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac, particularly those centered around his early years at home." -
From Habitant to Cultivateur : The Rural Quebecer
Author: Woolfson, A. PeterDate: 1983-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60628349How the Québécois farmer of the 1980s - confronted with urbanization and industrialization - compares with the agricultural traditions and longheld assumptions about Québec "habitant" ways of life. Based on a case study of farm business, farming, and farm families from La Visitation, outside of Nicolette, Québec. Frequent comparisons made to Horace Miner's 1939 landmark text, "St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish." -
The French Fact : Linguistic Challenge, Demographic Reality, Political Distortion
Author: Woolfson, A. PeterDate: 1976-09Language : enFind in a library: 60621291Essay on the realities of bilingualism in Canada, specifically in Québec. Projections for the future of the French language there with respect to human movement, population, and linguistic assimilation to English. Acknowledges the political strength and vocalization of Québec City has impacted ("distorted") actual popular arguments in defense of the French language -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewEssay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 233030405Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980
Author: Weil, FrançoisDate: 1989Publication: BelinLanguage : frFind in a library: 23695732Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).Tags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Cabotville MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee Falls MA, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Greek Americans, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Old Town ME, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Rochester NY, Rutland VT, Salmon Falls NH, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Troy NY, Waltham MA, Ware MA, White River Junction VT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Maria Chapdelaine : A Controversial Text
Author: van Lent, Peter C.Date: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Critical analysis of Louis Hémon's novel, Maria Chapdelaine, sparked by the recent centennial of Hémon's birth (1880). Some descriptions of the novel's main character, Maria, and her choice between two suitors - one to remain in Canada, or one to leave for Massachusetts. Arguments in favor of a certain type of reading the novel, as well as of the character Maria's eventual choice, her reasoning, and what the author believes to be her self-empowerment. Contrasting interpretations from other literary scholars. Assumes some familiarity with the novel. -
Maria Chapdelaine : A Controversial Text
Author: van Lent, Peter C.Date: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Critical analysis of Louis Hémon's novel, <i>Maria Chapdelaine</i>, sparked by the recent centennial of Hémon's birth (1880). Some descriptions of the novel's main character, Maria, and her choice between two suitors - one to remain in Canada, or one to leave for Massachusetts. Arguments in favor of a certain type of reading the novel, as well as of the character Maria's eventual choice, her reasoning, and what the author believes to be her self-empowerment. Contrasting interpretations from other literary scholars. Assumes some familiarity with the novel. -
Floribec : espace et communauté
Author: Tremblay, RémyDate: 2006Publication: Les Presses de l'Université d'OttawaLanguage : frFind in a library: 753328626Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme éspace, communauté, phénomène. Les lieux physiques saillants et l'organisation spatiale/géographique de Floribec; "l'espace d'appartenance" sociale de Floribec; les liens culturels entre Floribec et Québec, entre les "Floribecois" et les Québécois, et au sein de la communauté elle-même. -
Boutades et rêveries : poésies diverses
Author: Tremblay, RémiDate: 1893Publication: L'IndépendantLanguage : frFind in a library: 9590205Un recueil de poèmes et un drame dans un acte par un poète, journaliste, et romancier canadien-français à Fall River, Massachusetts du 19ème siècle. -
Gendered Passages : French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920
Author: Takai, YukariDate: 2008Publication: Peter LangLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 774287243Book-length study on French Canadian migrants and migration to Lowell, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 20th century. The role of family in cross-border human movement, and the impact of migration and its social, economic, and labor dimensions on men, women, and children migrants in an industrial New England city. A study of French Canadian migration as an important and distinct continental population movement; the "socially expansive space[s]" created by migrants uniquely across Canada/USA borders. Emphasis on gender dynamics - their responses to migration, labor, and the family in transition, with explorations of the individual experiences of women and men. Includes study of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social and economic contexts of Québec and Lowell, in-depth consideration of migration realities, and exploration of settlement in the United States through the lens of the paid and unpaid work experiences of French Canadian women and men. Contains many demographic data tables; illustrated in black and white photograph.Tags Boston MA, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Geography, Greek Americans, Health and Wellness, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Portuguese Americans, Québec, Seattle WA, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Travel and Movement, Willimantic CT, Wisconsin -
The Catholicism of Jack Kerouac
Author: Sorrell, Richard S.Date: 1982-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: 1773426Observations of Jack Kerouac's ethnoreligious background - Franco American and Roman Catholic - and what the author describes as one of three "panels of the survivance triptych" : Catholicism. Historical descriptions of the role and actions of the Roman Catholic Church in historic New France, French Canada, Québec, and later in Franco American communities like Kerouac's Lowell, Massachusetts. Franco Catholicism's Jansenist and Manichean tendencies as rooted in early French North American history. Kerouac's early devotion and later rebellion from Catholic practice, with an ever persistent reflection of and fascincation with select observably Catholic conditions and attitudes, including the themes of guilt and suffering apparent in his recorded life and works. Shades of Catholicism in "Beat Movement" mystical and anti-material mores, and intersections with Kerouac's attentions to Buddhism. Selected revelations of Kerouac's interior life, sexual life, and moral concerns as found in his literature and in select quotation. -
The Several Lives of Joan the Spinner : Honoré Beaugrand’s Jeanne la fileuse : épisode de l’émigration franco-canadienne aux États-Unis and the Making and Remaking of a French Canadian/Franco-American Novel
Author: Shanahan, BrendanDate: 2011Language : enSource : FULL TEXTFind in a library: 173021502Critical and historical analysis of of Honoré Beaugrand's 1877-1878 serialized novel, Jeanne la fileuse. Speculation on the author's political, social, and artistic motives for writing about nineteenth-century French Canadian emigration to New England, and the uniqueness of his liberal perspective at that time. Some thoughts on the novel's serialized publication in multiple newspapers, its soon-after publication as a single volume, and its twentieth-century re-publication in France and the United States. Differences among the published versions, varying intentions of the publishers, and consideration for each version's distinct audience. -
Studies on Vermont/Québec Relations : The State of the Art
Author: Senécal, AndréDate: 1983Publication: Center for Research on Vermont, University of VermontLanguage : enFind in a library: 10565367A brief annotated bibliography in essay form, with commentary, that focuses on the history of geographic and economic relationships between Vermont and Québec. Included in Occasional Paper Number Six, in a series produced by the Center for Research on Vermont, University of Vermont. -
The Economic and Political Ideas of Honoré Beaugrand in Jeanne la fileuse
Author: Sénécal, AndréDate: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Brief article placing Honoré Beaugrand and his single novel, Jeanne la fileuse, in the French, French Canadian, and American socioeconomic and political contexts on which the novel clearly comments. An exploration of Beaugrand's ideological positioning, and the ways in which the author is both a product and a producer of a liberal sociopolitical consciousness at the end of the 19th century. A brief historical background of Beaugrand in North America and abroad, as well as a brief synopsis of the novel in question. -
Essai bibliographique : sur l’apport franco-américain à la littérature des États-Unis
Author: Robert, AdolpheDate: 1949Publication: Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française; ÉruditLanguage : frFind in a library: 1764125Un revue de la Nouvelle Angleterre sur une collection des littératures franco-américaines jusqu'au présent (1949). Contiens une bibliographie d'oeuvres publiés.Tags Bibliography, Connecticut, Criticism and Review, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Québec, Rhode Island, Sports and Leisure, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La littérature franco-américaine : écrivains et écritures
Author: Quintal, Claire (rédactrice)Date: 1992Publication: Institut français, Collège de l'AssomptionLanguage : frSource : Texte intégral/Full textFind in a library: 27315869Un livre d'essais critiques et biographiques sur la littérature franco-américane et ses créateurs. Certains extraits littéraires des œuvres littéraire d'auteurs franco-américains contemporains, en anglais et français. Présenté en deux parties; un préface de la rédactrice, Claire Quintal, Directrice de l'Institut Français, Collège de l'Assumption, Worcester Massachusetts.
Book of critical and biographical essays on historical Franco American writers and their works; literary excerpts from the prose and poetry of contemporary Franco American writers. Essays presented in French, with contemporary literary writings in both French and English. Presented in two parts, with a preface written by the editor, Claire Quintal, director of the French Institute at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Table des matières:
Première partie / Part One:
"Louis Dantin (1865-1945)," par Yves Garon, a.a.
"Les Franco-Américains et l'institution littéraire québécoise : le cas de Rémi Tremblay," par Régis Normandeau
"Will James, né Ernest Dufault - romancier du Far-Ouest," par Florence Tormey Blouin
"Camille Lessard-Bissonnette - à la recherche d'un féminisme franco-américain," par Janet-L. Shideler
"La littérature franco-américaine dans un Petit Canada de la Nouvelle Angleterre: Holyoke, Massachusetts," par Ernest-B. Guillet
"Rosaire Dion-Lévesque, fils d'expatriés," Michel Lapierre
"Au-delà de la route: l'identité franco-américaine de Jack Kerouac," par Robert-B. Perreault
Deuxième partie / Part Two:"Tsi Gars," by David Plante
"A Pearl of Great Price," by Gerard Robichaud
"Un Mot de Chez-Nous," par Normand-C. Dubé
"On Writing a Novel about Franco-Americans," by Richard L. Belair
"Ideas of Order in Little Canada," by Bill Tremblay
"Reading from a Work in Progress," by Jacquie Giasson Fuller
Notices biographiques / Biographical notes, by Claire QuintalTags Boston MA, California, Central Falls RI, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Lewiston ME, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Montana, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New England, New Mexico, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Worcester MA -
Les Franco-Américains et leurs institutions scolaires
Author: Quintal, Claire (rédactrice)Date: 1990Publication: L'Institut français, Collège de l'AssomptionLanguage : frFind in a library: 23951441Le septième colloque de l'Institut français du Collège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1990. Présentations sur l'éducation et les institutions scolaires dans les communautés franco-américaines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre; mettant l'accent sur les écoles paroissiales, les collèges catholiques, les ordres religieuses catholiques, et l'occasion de la langue française dans la salle de classe. Des profils historiques de beaucoup des écoles paroissiales catholiques dans les six états de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Brefs profils biographiques des auteurs qui ont contribué au colloque.Tags Acadia, Albion RI, Augusta ME, Beecher Falls VT, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Blackstone MA, Burlington VT, Cascade NH, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Conference Proceedings, Connecticut, Education, Emigration and Immigration, France, Gardner MA, Gilbertville MA, Glens Falls NY, Goffstown NH, Hartford CT, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Ipswich MA, Island Pond VT, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lisbon ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Marieville RI, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Mexico ME, New Hampshire, New London CT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, North Adams MA, North America, Northampton MA, Ottawa ON, Pittsfield MA, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Rutland VT, Saco ME, Southbridge MA, Springvale ME, Three Rivers MA, Trumbull CT, Turners Falls MA, Tyngsboro MA, Vermont, Ware MA, Webster MA, West Warwick RI, Westbrook ME, Whitinsville MA, Willimantic CT, Winchendon MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA, Youth -
Mémère Kerouac ou la révanche du berceau en Franco-Américanie
Author: Quintal, ClaireDate: 1988Language : frSource : Le texte intégralFind in a library: 2442278Un bref article de revue sur les significations culturelles dans l'écriture de Jack Kerouac: "un gars de chez vous, aussi bien que de chez nous," comme écrit l'auteur (398). Plus précisement, comment la mère de Jack apparait dans sa vie et, par conséquent, dans sa littérature: ses textes, ses images, son style. -
Lucien
Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)Date: 1939Publication: Dodd, Mead & Company PublishersLanguage : enSource : Full TextFind in a library: 1400482Novel set near Trois-Rivières, Québec, that begins with the birth of a first child - a daughter, Lucien - to Marie Charbonneau, whose husband Léonce despairs for not having a son to work on their farm. Two hundred miles away, the first-cousins Phonce and Pierre are married and forced to leave their home, later giving birth to a son. The lives of both families and their subsequent children as they come to live side-by-side on neighboring farms. The later life of a maligned Lucien. Winner of the 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize at the University of Michigan. From the author of "Not Without Honor" (1941). -
Lucien
Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)Date: 1939Publication: Dodd, Mead & Company PublishersLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1400482Novel set near Trois-Rivières, Québec, that begins with the birth of a first child - a daughter, Lucien - to Marie Charbonneau, whose husband Léonce despairs for not having a son to work on their farm. Two hundred miles away, the first-cousins Phonce and Pierre are married and forced to leave their home, later giving birth to a son. The lives of both families and their subsequent children as they come to live side-by-side on neighboring farms. The later life of a maligned Lucien. Winner of the 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize at the University of Michigan. From the author of "Not Without Honor" (1941). -
Roots Always Precede Routes : On the Road, through a Glass Darkly
Author: Pacini, PeggyDate: 2011 March 28Language : enSource : Read/Lire: FULL TEXT/TEXTE INTÉGRALFind in a library: Unknown/InconnuCritical reading of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road," through the lens of French mobility in America and Kerouac's Franco American cultural identity. How Kerouac's traveling characters signify and explore the "homelessness" that the article's author associates with the French Canadian and Franco American in the United States.
From the author: "This article explores the subterranean layers of 'On the Road,' firstly, approaching them from three perspectives (the dyad routes-roots, ethnogenesis and cultural geography), and secondly, considering the novel within a larger project, the 'Road' project, which allows further insight into the genesis of the 1957 edition and of the original scroll published fifty years later. This article focuses on the relationship between space, identity, travel and nation, and attempts to offer a reading of the author’s French-Canadian and Franco-American invisible ethnicity as a guiding line to the 'On the Road' proto-versions and to the themes developed (travel, mapping the land and the quest for the father[land])." -
Mobility, Class and Ethnicity : French Canadians in Nineteenth-Century Plattsburgh, New York
Author: Ouellette, SusanDate: 2002-09 (fall)Language : enFind in a library: 4862461Article discussing cultural and economic factors in the development of immigrant community and identity in Plattsburgh, New York, between 1850 and 1890 among French Canadians - the largest immigrant group of the time period in Plattsburgh. The impact of French Canadian immigration on the development of Plattsburgh itself - socially, economically, politically. Comparison between French Canadian population growth and stagnated economic and occupational mobility in the 19th century. -
St. Anne as Symbol of Literacy in Québec Culture
Author: Murray, Kathleen RochefortDate: 2000-09(2000 fall / 2001 winter)Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article on iconography surrounding Ste. Anne - the mother of Jesus' mother, Mary - in the Roman Catholic culture of Québec. Exploration's of the saint's importance for understanding Québec and its people more intimately, first in terms of popular belief in her healing capabilities, and otherwise in terms of her believed role in the education of Mary. Her function as a spiritual icon of education for Québec believers. Popular relationships to the saint and her imagery, and the historical development of her spiritual and artistic representations as intercessor, educator, mother, and patroness in Québec. Thoughts on the development of Ste. Anne as a symbol for education. -
Les fictions de la franco-américanité
Author: Morency, JeanDate: 2012-03-00Language : frFind in a library: 60628349L'introduction au numero 53 de la revue "Québec Studies," dont les auteurs décrivent le contenu comme projet dans la littérature de la franco-américanité: canadienne-française, acadienne, franco-américaine. Discussion des textes majeures dans ce canon littéraire, et de les essais qui explorent sa nature. -
Les fictions de la franco-américanité
Author: Morency, JeanDate: 2012-03-00Language : frFind in a library: 60628349L'introduction au numero 53 de la revue "Québec Studies," dont les auteurs décrivent le contenu comme projet dans la littérature de la franco-américanité: canadienne-française, acadienne, franco-américaine. Discussion des textes majeures dans ce canon littéraire, et de les essais qui explorent sa nature. -
Echoes of Antiquity in Maria Chapdelaine
Author: Mitchell, ConstantinaDate: 2000 Spring/SummerLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring Louis Hémon's classic Québec novel, "Maria Chapdelaine" (1913), in light of criticism that has considered it in terms of Québec agrarian and religious mythology. The ways in which the novel employs mythological themes that have "roots in classical antiquity"(62). How the novel can be measured by critical insights into the concept of mythology more generally. Specific comparisons of Hémon's work and characters with "The Odyssey," Greek architecture, and some of the temporal and cosmological concerns of literary antiquity as explored by modern critics. -
Echoes of Antiquity in Maria Chapdelaine
Author: Mitchell, ConstantinaDate: 2000 Spring/SummerLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring Louis Hémon's classic Québec novel, "Maria Chapdelaine" (1913), in light of criticism that has considered it in terms of Québec agrarian and religious mythology. The ways in which the novel employs mythological themes that have "roots in classical antiquity"(62). How the novel can be measured by critical insights into the concept of mythology more generally. Specific comparisons of Hémon's work and characters with "The Odyssey," Greek architecture, and some of the temporal and cosmological concerns of literary antiquity as explored by modern critics. -
Literatures of Exile and Return : Jack Kerouac and Quebec
Author: Melehy, HassanDate: 2012-09Language : enFind in a library: 42415832Critical article exploring two of Jack Kerouac's novels - "Doctor Sax" and "Satori in Paris" - in a way that emphasizes the importance of Kerouac's "translingual" identity, cultural heritage, and his relationship to the diasporic history of the people of Québec and French Canada. How Québec literary scholarship has elevated Kerouac's prose to a level unmatched in the United States, where the author argues little attention has been paid to the influence of Kerouac's cultural and linguistic identity on his American writing. A comparative close-reading of Québec writer Jacques Poulin's novel, "Volkswagen Blues," and the various debts it owes to Kerouac. -
Literatures of Exile and Return : Jack Kerouac and Quebec
Author: Melehy, HassanDate: 2012-09Language : enFind in a library: 42415832Critical article exploring two of Jack Kerouac's novels - "Doctor Sax" and "Satori in Paris" - in a way that emphasizes the importance of Kerouac's "translingual" identity, cultural heritage, and his relationship to the diasporic history of the people of Québec and French Canada. How Québec literary scholarship has elevated Kerouac's prose to a level unmatched in the United States, where the author argues little attention has been paid to the influence of Kerouac's cultural and linguistic identity on his American writing. A comparative close-reading of Québec writer Jacques Poulin's novel, "Volkswagen Blues," and the various debts it owes to Kerouac. -
The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper
Author: Matthews, F. LouiseDate: 1955-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 137573897Article describing French, French-Canadian, and Franco-American newspapers published in the US and Canada as useful classroom tools for language learning and cultural competency. Discussions of various relevant French-language periodicals, their contents, origins, and distribution. Suggestions for their use with students.Tags Alberta, Berlin NH, California, Canada, Fall River MA, Lewiston ME, Los Angeles CA, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Newark NJ, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, Rhode Isand, San Francisco CA, Saskatchewan, Worcester MA -
Jumelage
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1766210Short fiction piece that follows Maggie - a Maine woman in Montréal - through a sudden relationship with her "jumelle interlinguistique," Noémi, and with the province and people of which she discovers she may not be a part. -
A Clue to Somersworth : La Malle Mystérieuse
Author: Littlefield, SusanDate: 1982Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : enFind in a library: 9985339The story of a young buy from Québec - Jean-Pierre - who pays a visit to the sister city of his own Thetford Mines: Somersworth, New Hampshire. A day exploring with his new friend, Laurie, takes them to Grandpa's house, through stories of old, and into a history of the city of Somersworth. Designed for children in the bilingual education classroom. Presented in side-by-side English and French text. Illustrated with photos of Somersworth and other drawings.
L'histoire de Jean-Pierre, un garçon du Québec, qui part de Thetford Mines pour visiter la ville de Somersworth, New Hampshire. Une journée dans Somersworth avec ses nouveaux amis, Laurie et son grand-père, et une exploration de l'histoire de la ville par leurs contes et photos. Conçu pour les étudiants dans la classe bilingue. En anglais et français. Illustré par des photos de Somersworth et des autres dessins. -
Canuck
Author: Lessard-Bissonnette, CamilleDate: 1936Publication: Le MessagerLanguage : frFind in a library: 8517171Ce roman franco-américain essentiel commence en 1900 avec l'arrivée à Lowell, Massachusetts d'immigrants canadiens-français. La nouvelle vie de travail de Victoria (Vic) Labranche, quinze ans, dans les moulins de Lowell. Ses jours dans un Petit Canada de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Son retour au Québec après avoir appris la maladie de son père. Publié à l'origine comme feuilleton par le journal Le Messager de Lewiston, Maine. Republié en 1980 par le National Materials Development Center à Bedford, New Hampshire. Traductions en anglais sont disponibles. (English translation is also available. Read more HERE)Tags Concord NH, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, Québec, St. Johnsbury VT, St. Martinville LA, Travel and Movement -
Regional Competition for Franco-American Repatriates, 1870-1930
Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.Date: 1983-03 (spring)Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing the logics and methods of Québec repatriation from the United States around the turn of the century. The establishment of the Eastern Townships as a Québec repatriation colony, active solicitation of Franco Americans in the United States, and other efforts of the Québec government to redress a "demographic imbalance" between anglophones and francophones in the region after 1870. Perspectives on repatriation from the standpoint of Québec's various political, cultural, and economic goals; Manitoba and western Canada's goals; as well as from Franco American communities in New England. How French Canadian naturalization in the United States, and French cultural pride in New England, effectively combatted Canadian efforts of repatriation. -
Journal d'un bibliophile
Author: Lambert, AdélardDate: 1927-00-00Publication: Imprimerie La Parole, LimitéeLanguage : frFind in a library: 6156497Témoignage autobiographique d'un homme à Manchester, New Hampshire et sa relation avec les livres. Son accumulation à vie de milles de livres de "Canadiana" et "Franco-Americana," et les histoires qui l'accompagnent, vers leur lieu de repos à l'Association Canado-Américaine. Sa vie comme collectionneur de livres. Comprend aussi des lettres et des articles de journaux relatifs à la Collection Lambert. Note: La Collection Lambert réside maintenant à Saint Anselm College à Manchester, New Hampshire. -
Franco-American Studies: A Resource Guide
Author: Kempers, AnneDate: 1980Language : enFind in a library: 8384190What the author calls "an annotated bibliography of materials about Franco-Americans and French Canada which are available in the greater Waterville (Maine) area." She writes: "In this bibliography an attempt has been made to take advantage of previously available bibliographical materials while at the same time adding all other items of which [we] have first-hand knowledge, with annotative commentary for everything." -
The Voice Is All : The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Author: Johnson, JoyceDate: 2012Publication: VikingLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 774147822Biographical portrait of Jack Kerouac, with uniquely heavy emphasis on the suggested influence of his French Canadian heritage - and the French language - on the style and content of his creative works. Written by a Kerouac contemporary and former friend. Covers from Kerouac's early life and those of his parents, to 1951, shortly after the publication of his first novel, The Town and the City. -
American Perceptions of Québec
Author: Hero, Alfred Olivier, Jr.Date: 1984Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing popular American ideas of Québec and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. The appearance of Québec in USA print and television media; attitudes of the American business community toward Canadian and Québécois economy; American understandings and misunderstandings of Québec linguistic and cultural identities. Low interest among Americans in Québec and Canadian politics, and the changing perceptions of Québec among American economists and foreign policy analysts amidst Québec separatist energies in the 1980s. Comparisons between Québec and the historical makeup of the USA Confederacy and the American South. -
The Questing Beast
Author: Hébert, RichardDate: 1984Publication: McClelland and StewartLanguage : enFind in a library: 10866546Novel told in parallel stories of a father and son. An American artist's eventual return to Canada in search of an identity in the place of his father's birth and death; the father's youthful departure from Quebec to New England many years before. Each man's personal "quest" forward and backward, and the pressures he endures.
From McClelland and Stewart: "'The Questing Beast' traces the lives of a father and son - heirs to a mysterious family disgrace - and their obsessive attempts to appease the specter of their past. Each of them is guided by enigmatic, even mystical, women as their separate journeys take them from the asbestos pits of Thetford Mines, Quebec, to the lush gardens of Miami Beach and, ultimately, back to the same destination."Tags Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Hartford CT, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lynn MA, Miami FL, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Québec, Taunton MA, United States, Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
Holeb : The Way I Remember It
Author: Grenier, Ross L.Date: 2010Publication: Monkey PublishingLanguage : enMemoir compiled from early twentieth-century stories of the author's youth, growing up in a large Canadian immigrant family in the townships of Brassua and Holeb, Somerset County, Maine. Rural family life in northwestern Maine - sporting, housing, schooling, work, and community. -
Accenting the French in Comparative American Studies
Author: Green, Mary JeanDate: 2009Language : enFind in a library: 1564555Critical essay on the inclusion of Francophone peoples and regions in the broadening scope of American Studies. Brief survey on certain literary works and literary criticism that illustrate how cultural identity gets articulated in terms of the wide geography, multiple languages, and human migrations of the Americas. The ways in which regional writers "remap" their region's identity and build specific international relationships, with examples from Haiti, Québec, and other Francophone areas in the western hemisphere. Particular emphasis on the peoples and literatures of Latin America and the Caribbean, Québec and French Canada, with some comments on Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana and Franco Americans New England. -
Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism : American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture
Author: Gould, Karen L.Date: 2003Language : enFind in a library: 1770272Article describing the recent attraction of USA scholarship to French Canadian literature. The integration of this literature within academic French programs, and the various practical and theoretical challenges it poses to the broader canon of Francophone Studies. The unique tie between Quebec literature and the growth of feminist, postcolonialist, and cultural minority literary critiques in Canada and the USA. The impact of Quebec nationalism - as well as multiculturalism - on its provincial literatures, and vice versa. -
Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism : American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture
Author: Gould, Karen LDate: 2003Language : enFind in a library: 1770272Article describing the recent attraction of USA scholarship to French Canadian literature. The integration of this literature within academic French programs, and the various practical and theoretical challenges it poses to the broader canon of Francophone Studies. The unique tie between Quebec literature and the growth of feminist, postcolonialist, and cultural minority literary critiques in Canada and the USA. The impact of Quebec nationalism - as well as multiculturalism - on its provincial literatures, and vice versa. -
Resources of the Teaching of the Sociology of Quebec : A Bibliographic Essay
Author: Giguère, MadeleineDate: 1983-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Challenges of teaching the sociology of Quebec to American students using English language resources. A brief annotated bibliography of suggested relevant and appropriate works, divided by sociological theme: primary resources, analytical focus, historical orientation, population, economy, stratification, family, religion, politics, ideology and nationalism, social change, and "the future." Written by a sociologist from the University of Southern Maine. -
Love, Loss, and the Sacred in Maria Chapdelaine
Author: Gasbarrone, LisaDate: 2012/2013-fal/winLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article discussing the role of the sacred in Louis Hémon's classic Québec novel, <em>Maria Chapdelaine</em>. Textual evidence of transcedence in Hémon's language and narrative, perhaps "markings" of a traditioned religious sensibility. A reading of the novel that traces sacredness as a sub-theme, and attends to character spirituality in the recurrence and development of religious - namely Roman Catholic - imagery, attachment, and detachment. How a religious narrative compounds the author's novel of loss and tradition in rural Québec. -
Love, Loss, and the Sacred in Maria Chapdelaine
Author: Gasbarrone, LisaDate: 2012/2013-fal/winLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article discussing the role of the sacred in Louis Hémon's classic Québec novel, Maria Chapdelaine. Textual evidence of transcedence in Hémon's language and narrative, perhaps "markings" of a traditioned religious sensibility. A reading of the novel that traces sacredness as a sub-theme, and attends to character spirituality in the recurrence and development of religious - namely Roman Catholic - imagery, attachment, and detachment. How a religious narrative compounds the author's novel of loss and tradition in rural Québec. -
A Parish Grows Around the Common : Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens, 1869-1995
Author: Gagnon, Richard L.Date: 1995Publication: Community of Teresian CarmelitesLanguage : enFind in a library: 35172722History of the Roman Catholic parish of Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens (what became "Notre Dame/St. Joseph Parish") in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1869 to 1995. Presented chronologically according to the lives and service of parish pastors and the achievements of their parishioners. The role of this parish in Worcester, and its development intertwined with the change and growth of the city. Emphasis on the parish's Franco American community - its parish laity and leadership. Includes lists of pastors, associate pastors, and their terms of service at Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens; pastors and terms of services at St. Joseph, Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Anthony parishes; choir directors, organists, and concerts from 1869 to 1995. -
Cultural Sovereignty, Identity, and North American Integration : On the Relevance of the U.S.-Canada-Quebec Border
Author: Gagné, GilbertDate: 2003 fall / 2004 winterLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring cultural policies implemented by Canada and Québec governments to both protect and promote cultural industries and indigenous cultural forms. The function of these policies in shaping national identities. The impact of these policies on Canada-U.S. relations. Canadian policy as response to American cultural industries. How international trade through the lens of FTA, NAFTA, and the WTO relate to Canadian cultural industry and identity politics. -
Negotiating Foreignness Across the U.S.-Canadian Border : Narrating the Francoeur Family's Everyday Life in David Plante's The Family and The Native
Author: Gaddas, Aya L.Date: 2011Language : enFind in a library: 60621717Article exploring the Providence, Rhode Island Francoeur family featured in David Plante's novels. The significance that the Canadian-American border plays for this family in shaping the cultural identities of its provincial characters, as well as the French cultural markers that grow out of its Catholic parish Providence locale. Some historical and theoretical discussion of the concept of the "borderland," particularly as it has been considered for Franco Americans within the contexts of Québec, Atlantic Canada, and the US Northeast. The convergence of the Francoeur family's identities as they extend across national borders with those that negotiate the borders of their ethnic neighborhood. -
Negotiating Foreignness Across the U.S.-Canadian Border : Narrating the Francoeur Family's Everyday Life in David Plante's The Family and The Native
Author: Gaddas, Aya L.Date: 2011Language : enFind in a library: 60621717Article exploring the Providence, Rhode Island Francoeur family featured in David Plante's novels. The significance that the Canadian-American border plays for this family in shaping the cultural identities of its provincial characters, as well as the French cultural markers that grow out of its Catholic parish Providence locale. Some historical and theoretical discussion of the concept of the "borderland," particularly as it has been considered for Franco Americans within the contexts of Québec, Atlantic Canada, and the US Northeast. The convergence of the Francoeur family's identities as they extend across national borders with those that negotiate the borders of their ethnic neighborhood. -
The Happy Time
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1945Publication: Simon and SchusterLanguage : enFind in a library: 1686763Coming-of-age novel in lighthearted stories set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, amidst the young narrator Robert's extended family of eccentric men and stern women. Robert's small obsession with a much older boarding woman, and other various crushes; the brief appearances of a friendly canary, a mouse, and Robert's French-Canadian uncles; Father Sebastian building a new church for life's finer things; the errands of neighbor Mrs. Merryweather; pipe organs, adult magazines, little green apples, and special characters in other vignettes. Illustrated. Adapted for stage and screen. -
The Happy Time
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1945Publication: Simon and SchusterLanguage : enFind in a library: 1686763Coming-of-age novel in lighthearted stories set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, amidst the young narrator Robert's extended family of eccentric men and stern women. Robert's small obsession with a much older boarding woman, and other various crushes; the brief appearances of a friendly canary, a mouse, and Robert's French-Canadian uncles; Father Sebastian building a new church for life's finer things; the errands of neighbor Mrs. Merryweather; pipe organs, adult magazines, little green apples, and special characters in other vignettes. Illustrated. Adapted for stage and screen. -
Don Roy, Fiddle Music, and Social Sustenance in Franco New England
Author: Faux, TomDate: 2009Language : enFind in a library: 1642050Profile of the life, training, and works of expert Maine-based fiddler, Don Roy. The musical traditions in which he seats himself, and the attention he has brought to contemporary fiddle playing through public performance. The author's critique of models of cultural sustainability, cultural preservation industry, and other institutions through the example of Roy's pursuits, his community music project, "Fiddle-icious," and through his "inherited sense of music as a participatory activity" (36). Summary history of Franco American immigration and subsequent communities in southern Maine. Contains segments of interviews with Don Roy and Cindy Roy, among others. -
Who Will Log in Maine's North Woods? A Cross-Cultural Study of Occupational Choice and Prestige
Author: Egan, AndrewDate: 2004-12-01Language : enFind in a library: 10394971Study of Maine- and Québec-rooted loggers in Maine's northern woods on the Québec border. Presentation of survey results depicting the attitudes of Maine and Québec loggers toward their occupation, their understanding of public perceptions toward logging, and their predictions for the future of the industry. Survey results report information on loggers' economic conditions, educational attainment, and other demographic categories. Analyses of survey findings, with the perspectives of Anglophone and Francophone workers, presented by authors from the University of Maine and l'Université Laval. -
Mirbah
Author: Dumas, EmmaDate: 1979 (1910)Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : frFind in a library: 7913042Un roman sur la vie immigrante et catholique d'une actrice dans la ville de Holyoke, Massachusetts; sa communauté et paroisse canadienne-française.
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à Holyoke, sous le nom de plume "Emma Port-Joli." Republié à 1979 par le National Materials Development Center for French. -
Mirbah
Author: Dumas, EmmaDate: 1979 (1910)Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : frFind in a library: 7913042Un roman sur la vie immigrante et catholique d'une actrice dans la ville de Holyoke, Massachusetts; sa communauté et paroisse canadienne-française.
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à Holyoke, sous le nom de plume "Emma Port-Joli." Republié à 1979 par le National Materials Development Center for French. -
The Historical Context of North American Theology : The Canadian Story
Author: Donovan, Daniel L.Date: 1986-06-11Publication: Catholic Theological Society of AmericaText of a brief presentation on the history of Canadian "Catholicisms," owing to the traditions established in Canada's New France, and to those of Scots, Irish, and eastern European immigrant groups to Canada in the early nineteenth century. A descriptive timeline of the Québec Catholic Church from 1763 to the 1980s, with an emphasis on theological thought and its historical underpinnings in a Canadian context, Québec nationalism, and ultramontanism. Descriptions of English Canadian Catholicism. The divisions, similarities, and relationships of these theologies as elements of what the author calls, "the Canadian experiment" (22). -
Les Franco-Américains dans la guerre : patriotisme et survivance
Author: Déry, DanielDate: 2000-hiv/prinArticle journal sur la participation militaire des canadiens-français aux conflits américains: les guerres d'Indépendence et de Sécession, les Guerres mondiales, etc. Quelques descriptions des hommes canadien-français et franco-américains bien-connus pour leur service militaire ou leurs expressions d'une patriotisme américain dans le 20e siècle. Explorations de la phénomène de la guerre comme entrée franco-américaine dans la discussion de l'identité culturelle et nationale; des attitudes franco-américains envers le Canada, le Québec, et le France; des négotiations de "l'élite franco-américain" pour un héritage français aux États-Unis par des périodes d'un patriotisme intensifié américain. La guerre américaine en tant que site de la dualité culturelle franco-américain.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Canada, Clubs and Societies, Cooperville NY, Fall River MA, Lake Champlain VT, Lowell MA, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Oswego NY, Québec, Rouse's Point VT, War, Whitehall NY, Woonsocket RI -
Au seuil du crepuscule
Author: Daoust, Charles R.Date: 1924-00-00Publication: St.-Maurice, LimitéeLanguage : frFind in a library: 23390718Livre de poèsie et de chansons. Écrites au Québec; en Ontario; dans plusieurs villes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
L'abîme hospitalier
Author: Dantin, LouisDate: 2000Publication: Écrits des ForgesLanguage : frFind in a library: 48501383Présentation de douze poèmes écrites par Louis Dantin. Précédée d'un essai critique et biographique de Dantin - sa vie et ses oeuvres au Canada, en Europe, et à Boston aux États-Unis dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. -
L'abîme hospitalier
Author: Dantin, LouisDate: 2000Publication: Écrits des ForgesLanguage : frFind in a library: 48501383Présentation de douze poèmes écrites par Louis Dantin. Précédée d'un essai critique et biographique de Dantin - sa vie et ses oeuvres au Canada, en Europe, et à Boston aux États-Unis dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. -
L'Américanité, the Dual Nature of the Québécois Identity
Author: Cuccioletta, DonaldDate: 2000 Spring/SummerLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the notion of "américanité" in Québec: not as an extension of a USA process of "Americanization," but as a descriptive continental term that relates to, contextualizes, characterizes, and pluralizes Québécois identity. Changing ideas of "américanité" in Québec in the 20th century, and more recently considered in light of NAFTA. Presentation and preliminary analysis of survey data from Québec with questions on the vocabulary of self-identification, perceptions of the term "américain," its geographical scope, and how respondents compare themselves generally to people in the United States. -
Kinship and Migration to the Upper St. John Valley (Maine - New Brunswick)
Author: Craig, BéatriceDate: 1983 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she calls the "cohort-life history method" - to build a portrait of the early in-migration of French Canadian and Acadian Madawaska communities, their habits, and their peopling. Individual, family, and community mobility and some thoughts on the explanations behind it. -
Integrating Québec History into the Curriculum
Author: Collin, MarcDate: 2006 spring/summerLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing several ways to integrate resources in Québec history into American university curricula on the history of the United States and North America. Historiographical summaries of historical periods and subject areas in Québec history, from exploration to the present day, with lists of selected French- and English-language texts as suggestions for students and educators. -
We Too Are Sons of Liberty : Franco-American Ethnic Advocacy in Joseph P. Choquet's Under Canadian Skies, a Historical Novel of the Rebellion of 1837
Author: Choquette, LeslieDate: 2012-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing the early twentieth-century English-language novel, "Under Canadian Skies," as unique to the canon of francophone Franco American novels of the same historical period. How author Joseph Choquet's form of literary ethnic advocacy differs from a more popular notion of "la survivance" apparent in the works of writers Jules Verne and Ernest D. Choquette. Thoughts on the novel's depiction of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. -
We Too Are Sons of Liberty : Franco-American Ethnic Advocacy in Joseph P. Choquet's Under Canadian Skies, a Historical Novel of the Rebellion of 1837
Author: Choquette, LeslieDate: 2012-03-00Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing the early twentieth-century English-language novel, "Under Canadian Skies," as unique to the canon of francophone Franco American novels of the same historical period. How author Joseph Choquet's form of literary ethnic advocacy differs from a more popular notion of "la survivance" apparent in the works of writers Jules Verne and Ernest D. Choquette. Thoughts on the novel's depiction of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. -
French-Canadian Literature: An Introductory Bibliography
Author: Chartier, Armand B.Date: 1976 AutumnLanguage : enFind in a library: 484628221From Chartier: "The following bibliography is a personal response to a growing number of demands from colleagues wishing to become acquainted with the rapidly expanding field of French-Canadian literature. This bibliography lays no claim whatever to completeness...only a multi-volumed effort could make such a claim, given the vastness of the subject-matter. The items listed here represent only a fraction of the very best work published in the fairly recent past. The general works are the most reliable source for readers interested in the literature of the earlier period." -
La Bêche (The Spade), ou, les Assimilateurs en action : Album de dessins gais
Author: Charlebois, JosephDate: 1911Publication: J.A. LefebvreLanguage : frSource :Lire: Texte intégral
Find in a library: 53660030Sous-titrée, "Dédié aux Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre."
Une collection de dessins politiques qui soulèvent des questions sur le traitement des Franco-Américaines par leur clergé catholique dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou plus précisément, dans le Maine. Commentaire artistique québécois sur la relation entre l'Église catholique - principalement, les évêques catholiques - et l'assimilation franco-américaine aux États-Unis au début du 20e siècle. Représentations sévères fictifs de la hiérarchie catholique et les Irlando-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.
De l'éditeur: "Cet album ne surprendra pas ceux qui, depuis vingt ou vingt-cinq ans, s'intéressent au sort de nos compatriotes établis aux Etats-Unis, ou - pour parler avec plus d'exactitude - de nos compatriotes établis en dehors de la province de Québec....Les dessins qui y sont groupés ne font pas autre chose que fixer quelques traits principaux de la vie catholique aux Etats-Unis." -
Franco-American and Québec Studies: A selected bibliography of materials held by the Libraries of the State University of New York at Albany
Author: Brière, EloiseDate: 1984Publication: State University of New York at AlbanyLanguage : enFind in a library: 12743446Short bibliography of texts relevant to Franco American and Québec studies to be found at the library of SUNY Albany. Divided into the following categories: Reference Material, General Works, Literature and Criticism, Franco-American Authors and Topics, and Periodicals. -
Man and His World
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1992Publication: Porcupine's QuillLanguage : enFind in a library: 26801089Book of international short stories rooted in Montréal and the US Northeast. Written in English with a recognizable play of languages, especially French and German. From renowned fiction writer and essayist, Clark Blaise, author of such books as "I Had a Father," "A North American Education," and "Tribal Justice." Blaise is the former director of the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
Translation
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1987Publication: MethuenLanguage : enFind in a library: 16044405Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Translation
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1987Publication: MethuenLanguage : enFind in a library: 16044405Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Man and His World
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1992Publication: Porcupine's QuillLanguage : enFind in a library: 26801089 -
Américanité-américanisation des Québécois : quelques éclairages empiriques
Author: Bernier, LéonDate: 2000 Spring/SummerLanguage : frFind in a library: 60628349Une exploration du terme et du thème "américanité" en tant qu'un point focal d'identité et d'identification du Québécois francophone. Les manières dont la géographie, la langue et la perception culturelle de soi comprendre pour les perceptions d'une relation à l'Amérique du Nord ou aux États-Unis. Des statistiques d'une enquête démographique québécoise - des réponses des quéstions du vocabulaire et l'identification culturelle de soi - présentés dans les tableaux de données. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed EditionsLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Disobedient Ancestors
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2009-spr/sumLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 52243319Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)Language : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Madame Athanase T. Brindamour , raconteuse
Author: Beaupré, NormandDate: 2012-00-00Publication: Llumina PressLanguage : FrançaisFind in a library: https://francolibrary.com/items/show/2025Roman composé d'histoires de vie et de la famille à Manchester New Hampshire, tel que racontées par le personnage-titre et son épouse : Marie Solfège Desruisseaux Brindamour et Athanase T. Brindamour. Les voix, personnalités, et communautés de deux raconteurs - femme et homme - franco-americains. Créé par auteur et créateur de "la Souillonne." Comme écrit l'auteur, chacun de ces trois caractères parlent "en dialecte franco-américain." -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Author: Beaudreau, SylvieDate: 2009-sum/fallLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1773222Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
Everything I Own
Author: Beauchemin, RaymondDate: 2011 November 18Publication: Guernica EditionsLanguage : EnglishFind in a library: 712851483From Guernica Editions: "Songwriter Michel Laflamme is stuck in traffic on Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge. While waiting for police to try to talk down a potential suicide, Michel turns on the radio and hears his wife, Bijou, founding member of Beaupré, the seminal Quebec folk-rock group. The music takes Michel across a 30-year span of memory, through the emotional and political upheavals of his own life and that of his Belle Province."
"Jack Kerouac meets Beau Dommage! This novel of a coming-of-age in the Montreal music scene of the Seventies is a Québécois blues, wise, pungent, and funny." -- Peter Behrens, Governor-General's Award winning author of The Law of Dreams -
Community-Building in Uncertain Times : The French-Canadians of Burlington and Colchester
Author: Beattie, BetsyDate: 1989Language : enFind in a library: 1773222Article characterizing the social and economic conditions surrounding Vermont's fluid French Canadian immigrant populations in Burlington and Colchester at the outset of 1850, and the ensuing decade's historical significance in the process of immigrant community definition. The difficult foundation of French Canadian national cultural institutions - school, church, and social organization - in these towns in the 1850s; and the impact of these advancements on community growth and French Canadian identity (cultural, religious, linguistic) among ethnic groups in the region. Discussion of the relevance of Burlington's early lumber and manufacturing industries - before the American Civil War - to the local immigrant workforce. -
The Fragrance of Rose : The Cult of Woonsocket's 'Saint' Endures Despite Official Doubt
Author: Barry, DanDate: 1988 June 5Language : enFind in a library: 9440205Report on famed Woonsocket, Rhode Island woman of Catholic piety, Marie Rose Ferron, and the faith community that developed around her during her short life and after her death in 1936. The alleged stigmatist whose shrines continue to exist; whose cult of believers lingers after she was denied sainthood, and still long after evidence has been amounted against the legitimacy of her healing powers and stigmatic wounds. -
The Oldest and Most Resistant Section of the Border
Author: Balthazar, LouisDate: 2003 fall / 2004 winterLanguage : enFind in a library: 60628349Article describing the historical and cultural conditions of the North American border between United States and Canada, particularly its shapes between the United States and the province of Québec. The author's argument that the Canada-US border persists precisely because of the distinctiveness of Québec culture and politics. Québec's relationship with the United States in terms of 18th and 19th century political disputes; migration; industrialization; trade; Québec's movement toward sovereignty; cultural affairs; and party politics dynamics in the 20th century. How popular attitudes toward the United States compare between Québecers and other Canadians; how international borders compare to interprovincial borders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Film and Television, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North America, Ontario, Québec, United States, Vermont -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Author: Aubé, Mary ElizabethDate: 1997Language : frFind in a library: 55667210Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Author: Aubé, Mary ElizabethLanguage : frFind in a library: 55667210Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
L'identité de l'immigrant québécois en Nouvelle-Angleterre : le rapport Wright de 1882
Author: Anctil, PierreDate: 1981Language : frSource : Texte intégralFind in a library: 60688713Un portrait historique de la réponse publique au rapport infâme écrit par Carrol Wright et du Bureau of Labor Statistics du Massachusetts, 1881, dans le contexte de l'immigration canadienne-française classe ouvrière, de la communauté, et de l'identité. Des renseignements biographiques sur Carroll Wright. Activité journalistique dans les communautés franco américaines, en particulier autour de l'œuvre de Ferdinand Gagnon et Hugo A. Dubuque, à l'époque. Réactions au rapport 1881 comme éléments significatifs au notre compréhension de l'identité des immigrants en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19ème siècle. Référence à l'œuvre historique de Frances Early et un rapport fédéral subséquent sur le travail et le capital qui traite les travailleurs immigrants canadiens-français.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Baltic CT, Cohoes NY, Connecticut, Dunbarton NH, Fall River MA, Grosvenordale CT, Holyoke MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Plattsburgh NY, Putnam CT, Québec, Rhode Island, Troy NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA