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  The Way That Water Enters Stone

  Author: Dufresne, John

  Date: 1991 (1997)

  Publication: Norton

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 21677261

  Collection of short stories from native of Worcester, Massachusetts and professor of creative writing at Florida International University. Author of the novels "Louisiana Power & Light" (1994), "Love Warps the Mind a Little" (1997), "Requiem, Mass." (2008), and several other works of prose.

  Tags Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Florida, Gorham ME, Irish Americans, Lake Winepesaukee NH, Leominster MA, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Orono ME, Providence RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Violence, Worcester 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
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  Dial 581-FROG : The Struggle over Self-Naming by Franco-Americans in Maine

  Author: Peterson, Eric E.

  Date: 1991

  Publication: Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 25826165

  Essay exploring the 1989 controversy surrounding the Maine State Legislature's protest over the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's use of the word "frog" in advertising its telephone number: 581-FROG. A case-study in communication research that identifies the divergences between Franco American legislators and Franco American university activists in terms of their attitudes toward language, self-naming, and dominant modes of discourse. Brief historical background.

  Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Orono ME
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  The Way That Water Enters Stone

  Author: Dufresne, John

  Date: 1991 (1997)

  Publication: Norton

  Find in a library: 20th century; New England; Louisiana; Florida

  Tags Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Florida, Gorham ME, Irish Americans, Lake Winepesaukee NH, Leominster MA, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Orono ME, Providence RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Violence, Worcester MA