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Loup Garou
Author: Kadetsky, ElizabethDate: 2012-sprLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1757375Short story narrated by a writer frequently at odds with her spiny and somewhat distant lover on their roadtrip from Oregon to the East Coast. -
Continental Drift
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 1985Publication: Harper & RowLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 10998820Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her family along the sea route northward to Florida. -
Under Canadian Skies : A French-Canadian Historical Romance
Author: Choquet, Joseph P.Date: 1922Publication: Oxford PressLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 6908693Novel of historical fiction depicting the Rebellion of 1837 in Canada. Philippe Champagne and Edouard Dumas are two young attorneys whose advocacy on behalf of Lower Canada carries them from Montréal to the Québec countryside, and from the Champagne family and their friends to some of the most notable political figures of the period. The spy, Mireau, who unsettles Lower Canada and threatens its rebellion. Shots fired and swordplay between peasant militia and advancing soldiers. Depictions of animosity between English and French Canadians. Written by a Rhode Island author, and introduced with a brief discussion of New England French speakers. -
Speeding Across the Rhizome : Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road
Author: Abel, MarcoDate: 2002Language : enFind in a library: 1645443A reading of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" alongside the literary criticism of Gilles Deleuze and his counterparts. Emphasis on Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of the "rhizome" in comparison to the spontaneous routes of cross-country travel taken by characters in Kerouac's novel, and the innovative styles and shapes of his prose. Conversation with Deleuze's own reading of and writings on "On the Road" through the critic's descriptions of what is meant by the term "minor literature" : writing which is characteristically "deterritorializ[ed]" and exhibits a collective, political nature. -
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. -
In Moscow
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1988 WinterLanguage : enFind in a library: 37589723An account of author David Plante and his editor friend, Nikos, on a trip to Moscow in the 1980s. Accompanying Nikos to meetings with Russians looking to publish works on art and architecture, and Plante's other various guided excursions through the city. How the Soviet Union of Plante's experience compares to the ideas and assumptions of Russia that gave him great interest and fed his imagination from the time of his boyhood in New England. Plante's trip away from home turning him to thoughts on America and himself, understanding his surroundings, and considering the value of ideals.
"My mother would say, 'Then go to Russia, go, if you'd think its better'" (107). -
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. -
Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
Author: Voisine, ConnieDate: 2008Publication: University of Chicago PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 123137085Book of poems from Fort Kent, Maine native and professor of English at New Mexico State University. Author of the book of poems, "Cathedral of the North," published in 2001. -
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. -
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. -
The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author
Author: Creadick, Anna G.Date: 2009-12Language : enFind in a library: 60637308Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States. -
Les interprètes du beau
Author: Trottier, MauriceDate: 1983-2-10Publication: Editions LafayetteLanguage : frFind in a library: 12245676Un ensemble de brèves présentations littéraires et d'études sur les vies et les ouevres de plusieurs écrivain(e)s - locales et internationales, anglophones et francohpones - qui ont eu un influence sur l'auteur. Des réactions à la traduction de "Evangeline" par l'auteur, Maurice Trottier, écrits par ses lecteurs. Composé en trois segments, sur ou par les personnes qui suivent:
Poètes versificateurs: Alice Lemieux Lévesque; Rosaire Dion-Lévesque, Louis Dantin; Emilie-Jeanne Sorson, Anny Ticx, Roger Erre, Henriette Brondani, Roger Forst, Alfred Jarry; Alfred Tennyson, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poètes prosateurs: Antoine de Saint-Exupery; Henri d'Arles; Saint François de Sales
Interpretateurs: Rosaire Dion Lévesque; L'Illettré; Séraphin Marion; Rodolphe Laplante; Antoine Goulet; Pierre Courtines; René Herval -
A Border Like No Other
Author: Sadowski-Smith, ClaudiaDate: 2008Publication: University of Virginia PressLanguage : EnglishSource : PREVIEWFind in a library: 166317572Book section exploring how the Canada/US border is used by some Canadian and American fiction writers to examine personal, ethnic, and national identities in comparative or dual contexts. Examines the work of Clark Blaise, Guillermo Verdecchia, Janette Turner Hospital, and Kelly Rebar, among others. Featured in a book that analyzes the thematic roles of the borders between Mexico, the United States, and Canada in contemporary fiction, and what these expressions teach us about transnationalism, globalization, and ethnicity. -
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. -
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 -
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])." -
Guide to Non-English-Language Print Media
Author: Fishman, JoshuaDate: 1981Publication: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual EducationLanguage : enFind in a library: 9466020A bibliographic resource guide to non-English-language periodical publications in the United States. Organizes short profiles of media alphabetically by title, numerically by National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) accession number, and geographically by city and state of publication. Includes hundreds of examples of print media from the 1970s and early 1980s. Published in a series of four resource guides, which includes the titles, "Guide to Non-English-Language Broadcasting," "Guide to Non-English-Language Schools," and "Guide to Non-English-Language Religious Units." -
Traditional Crafts and Craftsmanship in America : A Selected Bibliography
Author: Sink, SusanDate: 1983Publication: American Folklife Center, Library of CongressLanguage : enFind in a library: 12555335Bibliography of published writings and guides on crafts, handiwork, folk art, and their practice in the United States. Indexed by location, medium, and theme, each source appended with a Library of Congress catalog number. -
The Immigrant Experience in American Fiction : An Annotated Bibliography
Author: Simone, RobertaDate: 1994Publication: Scarecrow PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 44956605Bibliography of novels and some non-fiction authored by, concerning, and engaging a diversity of immigrant experiences in the United States. Important text for literary studies and American Studies. -
A Selective and Thematic Checklist of Publications Relating to Franco-Americans: Ethnic Heritage Studies Program of Rhode Island, Appendices F and G
Author: Chartier, Armand B.Date: 1975Language : enFind in a library: ED188491Republished as article in Contemporary French Civilization, Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 1978.
From ERIC: "An annotated bibliography of publications relating to Franco-Americans is presented. The publication was designed for secondary school teachers of French or social studies who wish to know more about Franco Americans before initiating mini-courses on this ethnic group. Journal articles, books, and papers presented at professional meetings are included. Most of the items deal with the French in New England, but a few entries concern the French presence in other parts of the United States. In addition to reference works and bibliographies, the following topics are covered: culture, education, history, linguistics, poetry, prose fiction, mother-country materials, religion, and sociology. A partial listing of research projects completed at Rhode Island College and a brief list of periodicals are appended." -
Kind Ness
Author: Chong, PingDate: 1988Publication: Theatre Communications Group/TCGLanguage : enFind in a library: 17980398Dramatic piece that follows five young people of different sociocultural backgrounds - and one Rwandan gorilla - interacting with one another at various stages of their lives in the suburban United States, all under the apparent study of the narrator. First performed in 1986; published in a 1988 collection of new American plays. -
The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author
Author: Creadick, Anna G.Date: 2009-12Language : enFind in a library: 60637308Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States. -
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. -
Une journaliste franco-américaine au seuil de l’avant-garde : l’espace des possibles d’Yvonne Le Maître (1876-1954)
Author: Lacroix, MichelDate: 2011Language : frSource : Texte intégralFind in a library: 60618507Un article sur les oeuvres et la vie sociale d'une journaliste franco-américaine de Pierreville, Québec et Lowell, Massachusetts - Yvonne Le Maître - aux États-Unis, au Canada, et en Europe. La particularité de sa variété d'écriture dans le cadre de son travail comme journaliste, aussi de sa mobilité , "à partir de l'état actuel des connaissances sur les écrivaines canadiennces-françaises" (79). Où ses lettres et pièces journalistiques se sont préoccupés avec les thèmes critiques et artistiques du "futurisme," "cubisme," et la modernité. En quelle façon sa contexte franco-américaine - ou "franco"et "américain" - concerne les formes de son travail. Un accent sur l'impact de son temps passé dans les cercles sociaux internationaux, spécifiquement en Paris. -
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.