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  Speeding Across the Rhizome : Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road

  Author: Abel, Marco

  Date: 2002

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1645443

  A 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, New York NY, San Francisco CA, Travel and Movement, United States
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  The Economic and Political Ideas of Honoré Beaugrand in Jeanne la fileuse

  Author: Sénécal, André

  Date: 1983 Spring

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Brief 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.

  Tags Business and Economics, Criticism and Review, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New England, Québec City
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  Maria Chapdelaine : A Controversial Text

  Author: van Lent, Peter C.

  Date: 1983 Spring

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Critical 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Massachusetts, Québec

• Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français

  Author: Aubé, Mary Elizabeth

  Date: 1997

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 55667210

  Une 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Québec

• Jack Kerouac : une conscience de la mort

  Author: Perreault, Guy

  Date: 1988-04-00

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 2442278

  Une article qui décrit la rôle de la mort dans deux des oeuvres de Jack Kerouac: Visions de Gérard et Tristessa. L'auteur suggére que la préoccupation ou "l'obsession" de Kerouac avec la mort dans ces textes est son certain type d'engagement avec la vie. Quelques comparaisons avec les écrits en prose de Rainer Maria Rilke.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Mexico

• Les fictions de la franco-américanité

  Author: Morency, Jean

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 60628349

  L'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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Québec, United States

• A Picaresque Revenant

  Author: Schick, Constance Gosselin

  Date: 2002-12-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1238339

  Article on Québec emigrant writer, Rémi Tremblay, and the serialized novel based on his time as a Union soldier in the United States Civil War, "Un Revenant: épisode de la guerre de Sécession." Textual interpretations of Tremblay's perceptions of war, and insights to his fiction based on information gleaned from his autobiography, "Pierre qui roule: souvenirs d'un journaliste." Explorations of Tremblay's portrayal of French Canadian emigration to the US at the turn of the century, and his literary representation of what the author calls "a new Francophone vernacular" (380).

  Tags Connecticut, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Montréal QC, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Virginia, War
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  L'abîme hospitalier

  Author: Dantin, Louis

  Date: 2000

  Publication: Écrits des Forges

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 48501383

  Présentation 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.

  Tags Belgium, Boston MA, Criticism and Review, Literary Works -- Poetry, Poetry, Québec, Religion

• 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, Leslie

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article 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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Native Americans, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Rhode Island, Rochester NY, United States, War, Worcester MA

• Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism : American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture

  Author: Gould, Karen L.

  Date: 2003

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1770272

  Article 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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Québec, United States

• The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author

  Author: Creadick, Anna G.

  Date: 2009-12

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60637308

  Critical 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.

  Tags Belmont NH, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Film and Television, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New Hampshire, United States

• Literatures of Exile and Return : Jack Kerouac and Quebec

  Author: Melehy, Hassan

  Date: 2012-09

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 42415832

  Critical 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, New England, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec

• Performances of Franco-American Identity in Mirbah : A Portrait of Precious Blood Parish

  Author: Lees, Cynthia

  Date: 2010-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article exploring the French language novel, "Mirbah," written by Emma Dumas in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1910. How the words and actions of the novel's characters can be read as various performances of Franco-American identity. A portrait of Holyoke's Precious Blood Roman Catholic Parish. A particular focus on religious practice and theatrical performance in Holyoke around 1910, and their occurrence within the text, . Thoughts on Dumas's personal commitment to "la survivance," and the writerly activities of her journalistic cultural contemporaries in the early 20th century.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Religion, Worcester MA

• Siting memory in Normand Beaupré's Le petit mangeur de fleurs

  Author: Lees, Cynthia

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article on the role of memory in Biddeford, Maine author Normand Beaupré's recent autobiographical novel. How memories and the act of remembering of one's youth and childhood home help to build collective cultural identity among Franco American communities, and become building block's for the author's personal, literary identity. Critical reading of the author's use of the French language, and of the personal and cultural traits upon which his story focuses.

  Tags Biddeford ME, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Youth

• Mémère Kerouac ou la révanche du berceau en Franco-Américanie

  Author: Quintal, Claire

  Date: 1988

  Language : fr

  Source : Le texte intégral

  Find in a library: 2442278

  Un 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Québec
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  Les interprètes du beau

  Author: Trottier, Maurice

  Date: 1983-2-10

  Publication: Editions Lafayette

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 12245676

  Un 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

  Tags Acadians, Belgium, Chicago IL, Criticism and Review, France, Literary Works -- Anthology, New Hampshire, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, United States, Worcester MA
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  La littérature franco-américaine : écrivains et écritures

  Author: Quintal, Claire (rédactrice)

  Date: 1992

  Publication: Institut français, Collège de l'Assomption

  Language : fr

  Source : Texte intégral/Full text

  Find in a library: 27315869

  Un 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 Quintal

  Tags 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
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  A Quest for Language : Jack Kerouac as a Minor Author

  Author: Deneire, Marc

  Date: 2001 spring

  Language : en

  Source : Full text (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship)

  Find in a library: 428814755

  Article characterizing the literary works of Jack Kerouac as elements of his search for personal, religious, ethnic, and linguistic identity. Particular emphasis on Kerouac's French Canadian heritage roots. The ways in which Kerouac's novels can be interpreted in light of what theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call "a minor literature," and how these novels unsettle - as the author says - "traditional English prose." Chapter 16 in "Diaspora, Identity, and Language Communities," an issue of Studies in Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Religion

• Two Franco-American Writers : Dantin and Dion-Lévesque

  Author: Lee, Sonia

  Date: 1978 summer

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 50709793

  Article exploring the author's notion of cultural "interfacing" through the French Canadian and Anglo American contexts of Montréal-born Louis Dantin (Eugene Seers) and Nashua, New Hampshire native, Rosaire Dion-Lévesque. Both authors wrote in French in early twentieth-century New England. Discussion of Dantin's best-known work, "Les enfances de Fanny," situated in Roxbury, Massachusetts; thoughts on its indifference to "American culture" and to some other themes that predominate other Franco American novels. How the later poetry of Dion-Lévesque, his French translations of Walt Whitman, and his attitudes toward "American culture" compare to the works of Dantin.

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Haiti, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Merrimack River Valley, Nashua NH, Poetry, Roxbury MA

• Franco-American Literature Today

  Author: Chartier, Armand

  Date: 1981 summer

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 50709793

  Brief review of some resources in Franco-American literature available at the beginning of the 1980s. Specifically mentions collections, works, and writers in Maine, Massachusetts, and Louisiana.

  Tags Auburn MA, Bedford NH, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, Orono ME, Performing Arts, Poetry, Worcester MA

• Jewett and the Incorporation of New England : "The Gray Mills of Farley"

  Author: Sherman, Sarah Way

  Date: 2002 spring

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 42711105

  Critical and historical reading of Sarah Orne Jewett's 1898 short story, "The Gray Mills of Farley," about textile mill workers, an agent, and mill directors around the time of a New England mill's cut-back and shut-down. Place and character descriptions in this story, according to the author, give us entry into the social make-up, living conditions, and manufactory settings found at the Salmon Falls Mills at the turn of the century in Rollinsford, New Hampshire - near to Jewett's own hometown in South Berwick, Maine. Author's comparisons between Salmon Falls Mills and the Amoskeag Mills of Manchester, New Hampshire. Reference to Tamara Hareven and Ralph Langenbach's book, "Amoskeag."

  Tags Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Irish Americans, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Religion, Rollinsford NH, South Berwick ME

• The Art of Fiction, No. 41

  Author: Kerouac, Jack (interviewee)

  Date: 1968 summer

  Language : en

  Source : Full text (The Paris Review)

  Find in a library: 1641889

  Transcript of 1968 interview with writer Jack Kerouac in his Florida home, shortly before his death in 1969. Conducted by three visitors - principally, poet Ted Berrigan - and with the participation of Jack's wife, Stella Kerouac. Part of a Paris Review series of author interviews, and featured in a Paris Review published anthology of other interviews with literary figures, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series (1976), edited by George Plimpton. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2659470

  Tags Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Interview, Literary Works -- Other, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, St. Petersburg FL
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  A Border Like No Other

  Author: Sadowski-Smith, Claudia

  Date: 2008

  Publication: University of Virginia Press

  Language : English

  Source : PREVIEW

  Find in a library: 166317572

  Book 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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, United States

• 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, Brendan

  Date: 2011

  Language : en

  Source : FULL TEXT

  Find in a library: 173021502

  Critical 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Government and Politics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Québec
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  Windblown World : The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

  Author: Kerouac, Jack

  Date: 2004-00-00

  Publication: Viking Penguin

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 55962427

  Edited selections from the personal, previously unpublished writings of writer Jack Kerouac, from 1947 to 1954. Daily thoughts and travel logs presented together with more formal musings. Contains two sections of personal journal entries and work logs corresponding with the writing of some of his earlier works, "The Town and the City" and "On the Road." Selected reprints of handwritten pages. Many selections dated. Introduced by the editor; presented with brief explanations of the names of people included in the journals.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Other, Lowell MA, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Travel and Movement
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  Safe in Heaven Dead : Interviews with Jack Kerouac

  Author: Kerouac, Jack

  Date: 1990

  Publication: Hanuman Books

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 23129491

  Short compilation of selected, transcribed segments of interviews conducted with Jack Kerouac between 1957 and 1969. Some of Kerouac's thoughts on ancestry, the Beat Generation, literature, his writing, Buddhism, Catholicism, family, and his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. Index of sources where interviews were originally printed.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Family, Fiction and Literature, Interview, Literary Works -- Other, Lowell MA, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion
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  Fatherless and Dispossessed : Grace Metalious as a French‐Canadian Writer

  Author: Toth, Emily

  Date: 1981 December

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1754751

  Article profiling Manchester, New Hampshire native writer, Grace (de Repentigny) Metalious. Summary and analysis of her best-selling scandalous novel, "Peyton Place," her reportedly favorite novel, "The Tight White Collar," and her final work, "No Adam in Eden." The autobiographical turn of Metalious's writing and the elements of her personal and family lives that shaped her fiction. Featured in an edition of the Journal of Popular Culture entitled, "Canadian Women Writers."

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Alcohol and Drugs, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Manchester NH, Personal History: Biography and Oral History
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  Accenting the French in Comparative American Studies

  Author: Green, Mary Jean

  Date: 2009

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1564555

  Critical 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.

  Tags Antilles, Canada, Caribbean, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Latin America, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Maine, New England, North America, Québec, United States

• The French-Canadian Heritage of Jack Kerouac as Seen in His Autobiographical Works

  Author: Woolfson, Peter

  Date: 1976 Summer

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 42960124

  Critical 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."

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, New England, Québec, Religion

• Roots Always Precede Routes : On the Road, through a Glass Darkly

  Author: Pacini, Peggy

  Date: 2011 March 28

  Language : en

  Source : Read/Lire: FULL TEXT/TEXTE INTÉGRAL

  Find in a library: Unknown/Inconnu

  Critical 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])."

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Geography, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New England, Québec, Travel and Movement, United States

• The Immigrant Experience in American Fiction : An Annotated Bibliography

  Author: Simone, Roberta

  Date: 1994

  Publication: Scarecrow Press

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 44956605

  Bibliography 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.

  Tags Bibliography, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, United States

• Essai bibliographique : sur l’apport franco-américain à la littérature des États-Unis

  Author: Robert, Adolphe

  Date: 1949

  Publication: Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française; Érudit

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 1764125

  Un 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
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  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, Eloise

  Date: 1984

  Publication: State University of New York at Albany

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 12743446

  Short 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.

  Tags Bibliography, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Québec
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  Siting memory in Normand Beaupré's Le petit mangeur de fleurs

  Author: Lees, Cynthia

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article on the role of memory in Biddeford, Maine author Normand Beaupré's recent autobiographical novel. How memories and the act of remembering of one's youth and childhood home help to build collective cultural identity among Franco American communities, and become building block's for the author's personal, literary identity. Critical reading of the author's use of the French language, and of the personal and cultural traits upon which his story focuses.

  Tags Biddeford ME, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Youth
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  Performances of Franco-American Identity in Mirbah : A Portrait of Precious Blood Parish

  Author: Lees, Cynthia

  Date: 2010-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article exploring the French language novel, "Mirbah," written by Emma Dumas in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1910. How the words and actions of the novel's characters can be read as various performances of Franco-American identity. A portrait of Holyoke's Precious Blood Roman Catholic Parish. A particular focus on religious practice and theatrical performance in Holyoke around 1910, and their occurrence within the text, . Thoughts on Dumas's personal commitment to "la survivance," and the writerly activities of her journalistic cultural contemporaries in the early 20th century.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Religion, Worcester MA
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  Memory Babe : A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

  Author: Nicosia, Gerald

  Date: 1983-00-00

  Publication: Grove Press

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 9392871

  Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth to early death; from Lowell, to New York, to San Francisco, to Denver, to Tampa and St. Petersburg, and back again. The cultural, interpersonal, and geographic contexts for his poetry and writings of autobiographical fiction. Anecdotes and aspects of his public and private lives, and where these lives changed and converged. Well-known for the biographer's extensive use of archival materials and interviews with Kerouac's contemporaries.

  Tags Alcohol and Drugs, Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Denver CO, Family, Fiction and Literature, Lowell MA, Nashua NH, New York NY, Northport NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, San Francisco CA, St. Petersburg FL, Travel and Movement, Youth
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  Literatures of Exile and Return : Jack Kerouac and Quebec

  Author: Melehy, Hassan

  Date: 2012-09

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 42415832

  Critical 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, New England, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec
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  The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author

  Author: Creadick, Anna G.

  Date: 2009-12

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60637308

  Critical 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.

  Tags Belmont NH, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Film and Television, Gender and Sexuality, Gilmanton NH, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New Hampshire, United States
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  Nationalism, Feminism, Cultural Pluralism : American Interest in Quebec Literature and Culture

  Author: Gould, Karen L

  Date: 2003

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1770272

  Article 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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Québec, United States
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  Une journaliste franco-américaine au seuil de l’avant-garde : l’espace des possibles d’Yvonne Le Maître (1876-1954)

  Author: Lacroix, Michel

  Date: 2011

  Language : fr

  Source : Texte intégral

  Find in a library: 60618507

  Un 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.

  Tags Art and Architecture, Criticism and Review, Europe, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Lowell MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Paris FR, Travel and Movement, United States
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  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, Leslie

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Article 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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Native Americans, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Rhode Island, Rochester NY, United States, War, Worcester MA
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  L'abîme hospitalier

  Author: Dantin, Louis

  Date: 2000

  Publication: Écrits des Forges

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 48501383

  Présentation 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.

  Tags Belgium, Boston MA, Criticism and Review, Literary Works -- Poetry, Poetry, Québec, Religion
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  A Picaresque Revenant

  Author: Schick, Constance Gosselin

  Date: 2002-12-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1238339

  Article on Québec emigrant writer, Rémi Tremblay, and the serialized novel based on his time as a Union soldier in the United States Civil War, "Un Revenant: épisode de la guerre de Sécession." Textual interpretations of Tremblay's perceptions of war, and insights to his fiction based on information gleaned from his autobiography, "Pierre qui roule: souvenirs d'un journaliste." Explorations of Tremblay's portrayal of French Canadian emigration to the US at the turn of the century, and his literary representation of what the author calls "a new Francophone vernacular" (380).

  Tags Connecticut, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Montréal QC, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Virginia, War
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  Les fictions de la franco-américanité

  Author: Morency, Jean

  Date: 2012-03-00

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 60628349

  L'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.

  Tags Canada, Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Québec, United States
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  Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français

  Author: Aubé, Mary Elizabeth

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 55667210

  Une 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Québec
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  Jack Kerouac : une conscience de la mort

  Author: Perreault, Guy

  Date: 1988-04-00

  Language : fr

  Find in a library: 2442278

  Une article qui décrit la rôle de la mort dans deux des oeuvres de Jack Kerouac: Visions de Gérard et Tristessa. L'auteur suggére que la préoccupation ou "l'obsession" de Kerouac avec la mort dans ces textes est son certain type d'engagement avec la vie. Quelques comparaisons avec les écrits en prose de Rainer Maria Rilke.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Mexico
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  Maria Chapdelaine : A Controversial Text

  Author: van Lent, Peter C.

  Date: 1983 Spring

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Critical 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.

  Tags Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Massachusetts, Québec
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  The Economic and Political Ideas of Honoré Beaugrand in Jeanne la fileuse

  Author: Sénécal, André

  Date: 1983 Spring

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 60628349

  Brief 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.

  Tags Business and Economics, Criticism and Review, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New England, Québec
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  "You're Putting Me on": Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence

  Author: Johnson, Ronna C.

  Date: 2000-01-01

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 38583988

  Article exploring the self-referential literature of Jack Kerouac as cause, commentary, and resistance to his "Beat Movement" celebrity in the 1950s and 1960s. How Jack's engagement with fame is exercised in his literature, or in other public appearances, and signals a literary ground on which American letters can begin to see characteristics of what would become known as "postmodern." Analysis of Kerouac's television appearance on The Steve Allen Show; emphasis on his novels "Vanity of Dulouz," "Visions of Cody," and "The Subterraneans," with constant reference to the success and interpretation of "On the Road." Explorations of critical thinker Michel Foucault's ideas on the concepts of "guilt" and "punishment," and of Jean Beaudrillard's notion of the "simulacrum."

  Tags Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Film and Television, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, New York NY
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  Speeding Across the Rhizome : Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road

  Author: Abel, Marco

  Date: 2002

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1645443

  Tags Criticism and Review, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, New York NY, San Francisco CA, Travel and Movement, United States