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Ida's lookin' to spread some holiday cheer
Article advertising the upcoming Christmas performances of Maine actress, writer, and humorist, Susan Poulin. Brief introduction to Poulin and a short summary of her show, "A Very Ida Christmas," set in a fictional Maine mill town. -
On Parle Français Ici
Article on Colby College graduate ('66) and Waterville, Maine native, Gregoire Chabot, whose writings have resonated not only with the Maine Franco American communities who share the heritage that Chabot often explores, but with readers and scholars across the United States and Canada. -
Class dramatizes the Franco-Mainer experience
Bowdoin College senior seminar in the French language culminates in a documentary film and a theatrical piece. Students used information learned through over 60 hours of interviews with local Francos. -
Quittons Pour Mieux Vivre, Let's Leave for a Better Life : A Story of Franco-Americans in Maine
Dramatic student portrayal of French Canadian immigration to Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contains scenes of family life in Quebec, dramatic reenactment of work in the mills of Maine, prayer and party in the United States, and various music and dance. Film adaptation of a stage production. -
Se connaître et se reconnaître dans des cours de civilisation et de littératures franco-américaines
Présentation sur la façon dont les professeurs de langue française et des études franco-américaines répondent aux besoins des étudiants de l'Université du Maine. Comprend un poième inspiré par les expériences d'enseignement d'un professeur de français. Comprend aussi un programme pour une classe proposée sur le théa?tre franco-américain. -
Le patrimoine folklorique des Franco-Américains
Le sixiième colloque de l'Institut français du Colliège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 15-16 mars 1985. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle," publié par le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique. Présentations sur le folklore dans les traditions françaises de l'Amérique du Nord, et dans la vie culturelle des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et de l'état de New York. Les légendes et les histoires orales; les remièdes traditionnels, les pratiques religieuses populaires, et des autres coutumes; la chanson et la danse. Quelques contributeurs importants au folklore écrite. Une liste de 24 chansons sur le thième de l'émigration du Canada, aussi que des autres chansons populaires. Des brefs profils des auteurs qui ont contribué au colloque.Composé des piièces suivants: Préface, Claire Quintal "Le légendaire francophone en Amérique,"Jean-Claude Dupont "Le printemps dans la tradition France-Amérique," Anne-Marie Desdouits "La naissance du cotillon et du quadrille," Simonne Voyer "Le rêve d'une vie meilleurs dans les chansons acadienne de départ vers les ètats-Unis," Donald Deschênes avec la collaboration de Charlotte Cormier La survivance par la chanson et la danse: -"L'èglise catholique et la danse," Barbara LeBlanc -"Chéticamp et Waltham," Laura Sandowsky "Trois témoins du folklore franco-américain: Honoré Beaugrand, Adélard Lambert, Roméo Berthiaume," Brigitte-M. Lane "Tout de long de la riviière: la survivance de la chanson canadienne-française de tradition folklorique à Woonsocket, Rhode Island," Deborah-A. Waldman "'Pour guérir tous maux' - la médecine populaire," Roger Paradis "Le femme aux grands rêves: Anna Morin Dubé," Julien Olivier "Histoires de vie des Franco-Américains du sud-est du Massachusetts, racontées par celle qui les a enregistrées," Joséphine Perreault "Une présence invisible - les Franco-Américains de Keene, New Hampshire," Margaret Langford "A? la recherche de l'histoire orale des Américains d'ascendance française dans l'ètat de New York," Peter van Lent Notices biographiques, Claire QuintalTags Acadians, Albion RI, Art and Architecture, Canton NY, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Folklore, France, Hartford CT, Jaffrey NH, Keene NH, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Marlborough NH, Music, Native Americans, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Sports, Nova Scotia, Ogdensburg NY, Performing Arts, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Roxbury NH, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Sports and Leisure, St. John River Valley, Troy NH, Waltham MA, Winchester NH, Woonsocket RI -
Les Franco-Américains : La promesse du passé et les réalités du présent
Une collection de papiers d'un colloque NADC dans la Nouvelle-Angeleterre, 1976. La poièsie, des essayes sur l'ethnicité et la culture, des histoires, des piièces dramatiques, aussi que des pensées sur la langue et la futur francophone aux États-Unis. -
Contras, Squares & Rounds : Fiddling the Night Away at Local Dances
Article compiled from oral history interviews of Vermont musicians in the twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Includes reminisces by Franco-American fiddler Camile Dubois, Wallace Coburn talking about fiddler Alfred 'Crazy' Chase, and musician Harold Luce."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, Music, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Performing Arts, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, Vermont -
Performing Family Stories, Forming Cultural Identity : Franco American Mémière Stories
Performance studies essay on Franco American grandmothers and the formation of cultural identity through storytelling. Written by Mark and Marcia Bailey Professor at the University of Maine and co-author of "Storytelling in Daily Life" (Temple University Press, 2004). -
Performing the Postindustrial : The Limits of Radical History in Lowell, Massachusetts
Article that critically examines the relationship between the historical content of the Lowell National Historic Park (NHP) - built in the 1970s within the former mill architecture of Lowell, Massachusetts - and the ways and contexts in which this content is performed. Remarks on the conceptual birth of the Lowell NHP within the twentieth-century growth of "public history" as a discipline and an industry in the United States; the park's theoretical orientations. How the park's means of describing the textile industry and its workers in Lowell has the effect of relegating industrial life to the past and, as the author argues, "reinforc[ing], on a fundamental level, the continuing creation of Lowell as a postindustrial place" (94). How the growth of the park relates to a theory of the gentrification of the city of Lowell. -
L'Alliance française de Lowell : 1937-1947
Une publication de conférences - historiques, artistiques, académiques, culturels - faites par divers intervenants américains et internationaux au Cercle de Lowell, une branche de la Fédération de l'Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis, entre 1937 et 1947. Ces conférences étaient publié précédemment dans L'Etoile, un périodique de Lowell, Massachusetts. Commence par une briève introduction à l'Alliance Française et son Cercle de Lowell. Du texte: "[On] avait déja publié en 1937 un premier volume sur l'Alliance Francaise de Lowell qu'il avait dédié 'à la gloire des canadiens-francais, nos peres au pays, qui nous ont conservés catholiques et francais' et 'à l'honneur de la génération franchement franco-américaine du XXe siecle qui arbore bien haut le flambeau de la survivance, et à l'édification des générations franco-américaines à venir pour leur persévérance dans la foi et les traditions des ancetres'." Contient les écrits et les conférences suivantes, dans leur ordre d'apparition: Frontispice, Dédicace, et Préface Historique de l'Alliance française de Lowell (1937-1947) SAISON 1936-1937 "La France telle que l'étranger ne la connaît pas: la famille française," Raymond Lange "Théâtre de Brieux," Léon Lemonnier "Napoléon et la politique étrangière actuelle de la France," Raymond Gaston-Chérau "Les cinq siièges de Québec," Lt-col. Ernest Legaré SAISON 1937-1938 "La Société française à la veille de la Révolution," Mme. Aline Caro-Delvaille "Chansons du folklore français," Mme. Adièle de Doudeuil "L'opinion publique en France: sa formation et son role," Pierre de Lanux "Tragiques amours de princesses au Moyen-Age," Duc de Lévis-Mirepoix "Les droits patriotiques des minorités," R.P.J.-Vincent Ducattillon, o.p. SAISON 1938-1939 "Concert de chansons françaises et de folklore," Le Petit Septuor de la Bonne Chanson "Louis-XIV, Roi Soleil," Le consul François Briière "Discours du novel officier d'Académie" "Noà«ls de France," Mme. Jeanne Brondel-Allen " 'Les Perles de la Couronne' " (film français) "Le portrait française de Fouquet à Cézanne," Charles Sterling " 'La Normandie,' 'Les provinces françaises' " (films français) "Grandeur de la musique française de notre siiècle," Henry Malherbe "Quelques aspects méconnus de la survivance franco-américaine," Edward-B. Ham "Dicours du nouvel officier d'Académie" SAISON 1939-1940 "En marge d'une crise: Psychologie comparée des Français et des Allemands," Frédéric Urmatt "C'est le 10e anniversaire" "Paul Claudel: l'homme et l'oeuvre," R.P. Léon Loranger, o.m.i. "Diseuse," Germaine Arosa "Sarah Bernhardt: tragédienne de l'amour," Louis Allard " 'Le Roussillon' et 'Le Veille d'Armes' " (films français) SAISON 1940-1941 "L'Acadie Louisianaise: sa langue, ses traditions, ses coutumes," André Lafargue "La France se roidit déjà pour résister au vainqueur," André Morize "Sketches monologués," André Frere "Expériences d'un Français attaché à la B E F en Flandres et à Dunkerque," Comte Jehan de Noue " 'Son premier bal,' " Cercle dramatique de New-Bedford SAISON 1941-1942 "Revue des Deux Mondes: choses vues et entendues," Mme Claude Eylan "Un prophiète qu'on n'a pas écouté: Jacques Bainville et l'Europe d'Hier," Robert de St-Jean "L'Alsace fidièle: régime français, régime allemand, situation actuelle," R.P. Jean-Baptiste Pflieger, s.j. "L'histoire de la littérature canadienne-française," Mlle. Marine Leland "Récital de chants français," Camille Girouard SAISON 1942-1943 " 'Le Curé de Village,' " Robert Choquette "L'histoire d'un livre: Maria Chapdelaine," Pauline Moll-Tougas "La démocratie française: hier, aujourd'hui, demain," Roger Picard "La France et l'Europe: les conditions du sécurité de la France," Louis Rougier "La vie intellectuelle au Canada français," Jean Seznec "L'amour dans la poésie canadienne-française," Alice Lemieux-Lévesque "Récital de chansons de folklore français," Pierre Pelletier "La Belgique et la Guerre," Dr. Robert Goffin SAISON 1944-1945 "Les légendes du Vieux Québec," Paul Rainville "La langue française en Haiti: le créole et le folklore," Son Exc. Dantes Bellegarde "Concert de chant avec trio Bilodeau," Gilberte Barrette "Du légendaire, du poétique et du satirique dans la chanson et dans la littérature de folklore françaises," Mme. Louise Arnoux "La France et l'Europe," Louis-J.-A. Mercier SAISON 1945-1946 "La vie à Paris pendant l'occupation," Serge-Paul Sotiroff "David contre Goliath ou l'intelligence française sous l'occupation," George Adam "La France d'octobre 1945," Auguste Viatte "Fantaisies théâtrales," Mme. Fernande Pontalba "Concert d'artistes franco-américains," Diane Morin-Dubé SAISON 1946-1947 "Concert," Les Petits Chanteurs de Nashua "Belle réception à neuf épousées françaises et belges" "Paul Valéry: l'homme et l'oeuvre," Raoul Pelmont "Au service d'une survivance," Abbé Adrien Verrette "Le sacrifice du matin: Des épreuves, un livre," Diner-réception au Général de Bénouville, à Mgr. Guérin et à M. Chambon "Les présentations par le Président" SAISON 1947-1948 "Mon voyage en Europe," Le R.P. Lucien Brassard, O.M.I. "L'écrivain et les grands hommes de ce temps," Le Dr. Maurice Bedel "La vie dans une ville de province en France," Mlle. Suzanna Bertillon Appendice Les Congriès de Paris et de New York "Qu'est-ce qu'une grande nation?" Georges Duhamel "Votre vie est dans vos mains," Vercors L'Alliance française de Lowell Les nouveaux membres de 1939 à nos jours "Epilogue," Albert-L. BourgeoisTags Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Europe, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, France, Germany, Haiti, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lectures, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Performing Arts, Poetry, Québec, United States, War -
L'Alliance française de Lowell
Une publication de conférences - historiques, artistiques, académiques, culturels - faites par divers intervenants américains et internationaux au Cercle de Lowell, une branche de la Fédération de l'Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis, entre 1929 et 1936. Ces conférences étaient publié précédemment dans L'Etoile, un périodique de Lowell, Massachusetts. Commence par une briève introduction à l'Alliance Française et son Cercle de Lowell. Du texte: "Ce livre a une mission, la meme que semble s'etre imposee son auteur tant a titre de journaliste que de travailleur social infatigable: celle de collaborer par des ouevres à la cause de la Survivance française aux Etats-Unis" (7). Contient les écrits et les conférences suivantes, dans leur ordre d'apparition: Frontispice, Dédicace, et Préface Historique du Cercle de Lowell de l'Alliance Française "Notre-Dame de Paris," Marcel Aubert "La galanterie française," Marcel Braunschvig "La valeur humaine de la culture française," André Morize "Le miroir de l'âme," Dr. Joseph Nolin "Clemenceau," Gaston Gille "La France devant la civilisation américaine," Louis Landré "La cour et les maisons royales: la vie à Versailles, Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau, Marly et Trianon," Charles Maricheau-Beaupré "Moliière, la musique et le cinéma," Léon Vallas "Un cas de conscience national," R.P. Georges Simard, o.m.i. "Le 'Malade Imaginaire,'" Chorale Saint-Jean-Baptiste "Les hommes de la Révolution, d'apriès Louis Madelin," Dr. Julien-J. Champenois "Paris et l'Exposition Coloniale," Paul-V. Donovan "Les femmes à l'époque de Moliere," R.P. Engelbert, a.a. "Relations artistiques entre la France et les Etats-Unis," Louis Réau "Impressions d'un Français au Canada en 1932," Raoul Blanchard "L'évolution de la France depuis 1870," André Allix "Esprit francais, esprit critique," André Morize "Autour de Noel: traditions, légendes, poésies," André Morize "Walt Whitman - l'homme et son oeuvre," Rosaire Dion-Levesque "Trois villes, trois mondes: Paris, Londres, New-York," Jean Canu "Napoléon, directeur de théatre," Louis Allard "L'esclave et l'enfant à travers la littérature latine et leur émancipation par l'Eglise," R.P. Engelbert, a.a. "L'enfance devant la crise," Philippe Soupault "Trois dictateurs: Mussolini, Hitler, Staline," Raymond Lange "La Cote d'Azur de Georges Toudouze," Rodolphe Pepin "Napoléon: d'Ajaccio à Sainte-Hélene," Lina-M. Gremillot "'Le presbytière en fleurs," Cercle dramatique Notre-Dame de Lourdes "Le chevalier d'Eon," Major Max Vivier "Quatre profiles d'ecclésiastiques francais: abbé Délong, Mugnier, Brémond, cardinal Baudrillart," Fernand Baldensperger "Paris sans guide," Josaphat Benoit "Film français," La Maternelle "La Fontaine et ses fables," R.P. Armand Baron, o.m.i. "Les enfants de la promesse (Chez les Franco-Américains)," H.-A. Jules-Bois "Aspects du théâtre contemporain," Albert Farmer Epilogue -
False Accents : Embodied Dialects and the Characterization of Ethnicity and Nationality
Exploration of how the dramatic use of accents and dialects in English speech informs and complicates discourse on race and ethnicity. How the function of identity in drama and performance distinguishes between the concepts of race and ethnicity. Some observations on recent contributions to the study of accents and dialects as elements of the fields of both linguistics and performance studies. The relationship of "theatre practices" to "social realities" as evidenced in the performance of a wide-ranging variety of English dialects.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Filipino Americans, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Language and Linguistics, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Performing Arts -
Ida's lookin' to spread some holiday cheer
Article advertising the upcoming Christmas performances of Maine actress, writer, and humorist, Susan Poulin. Brief introduction to Poulin and a short summary of her show, "A Very Ida Christmas," set in a fictional Maine mill town. -
Histoire Franco-Américaine : Historique de la paroisse St-Jacques de Manville 1872-1908
Une histoire de l'administration et des développements à Saint-Jacques paroisse catholique romaine à Manville, Rhode Island, au tournant du siiècle. Une chronologie des prêtres de Saint-Jacques. Mouvement des prêtres d'autres paroisses dans le Rhode Island, le Massachusetts et New York. Croissance d'organisations franco-américaines nationales et fraternelles dans le Rhode Island. Les chiffres sur la paroisse Saint-Jacques de la population, les familles, les étudiants, les propriétaires fonciers, etc.Tags Albion RI, Ashton RI, Berkeley RI, Blackstone River Valley, Central Falls RI, Education, Fall River MA, Glens Falls NY, Holyoke MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Pawtucket RI, Performing Arts, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Spencer MA, Valley Falls RI, Warren RI, Woonsocket RI -
On Parle Français Ici
Article on Colby College graduate ('66) and Waterville, Maine native, Gregoire Chabot, whose writings have resonated not only with the Maine Franco American communities who share the heritage that Chabot often explores, but with readers and scholars across the United States and Canada. -
Class dramatizes the Franco-Mainer experience
Bowdoin College senior seminar in the French language culminates in a documentary film and a theatrical piece. Students used information learned through over 60 hours of interviews with local Francos. -
Un théaêtre francophone dans un milieu franco-américain
Une histoire de théaêtre - ses peuples et ses spectacles - franco-américain à Holyoke, Massachusetts, et dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Met un accent sur la période entre 1900 et 1940.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Fall River MA, Holyoke MA, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Montréal QC, New England, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Northampton MA, Performing Arts, Religion, Social History, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, Suncook NH, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Storytelling in Daily Life : Performing Narrative
Performance studies theory text. Maine Franco American case studies in a discussion of the methods and forms of storytelling. Written by two University of Maine professors. From Temple University Press: "The authors ably guide readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders information and tasks, constitutes meanings, and positions speaking subjects. Readers will also learn that narrative performance is consequential as well as pervasive, as storytelling opens up experience and identities to legitimization and critique. The authors' multi-leveled model of strategy and tactics considers how relations of power in a system are produced, reproduced, and altered in performing narrative....The authors explain this strategic model through an extended discussion of family storytelling, using Franco Americans in Maine as their exemplar. They explore what stories families tell, how they tell them, and how storytelling creates family identities. Then, they show the range and reach of this strategic model by examining storytelling in diverse contexts: a breast cancer narrative, a weblog on the Internet, and an autobiographical performance on the public stage. Readers are left with a clear understanding of how and why the performance of narrative is the primary communicative practice shaping our lives today."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bangor ME, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Performance Studies, Old Town ME, Performing Arts, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, St. John River Valley -
Canadiens et Américains chez eux : journal, lettres, impressions d'une artiste française
Un texte par Armand Dupras (France Ariel est un pseudonyme) sur une tournée de concerts du trio musical Larrieu (de la France) aux États-Unis dans les années 1910. -
I Am Franco-American and Proud of It : An Anthology of Writings of Franco-American Women
A selection of women's writings - fiction, poetry, essay, journalism - that have appeared in the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's publication, "Le FAROG Forum." Le Forum is a periodical dedicated to issues related to the Franco American in the state of Maine and elsewhere. The writings in this collection span in time from the Forum's birth in the early 1970s to the time of the compilation's completion, around 1995.Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Art and Architecture, Bangor ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Blue Hill ME, Bradley ME, Brewer ME, Caribou ME, Chicago IL, Criticism and Review, Crown Point IN, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Fairfield ME, Food, Fort Kent ME, French Island ME, Frenchville ME, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham ME, Government and Politics, Haiti, Indianapolis IN, Journalism, Laconia NH, Ledyard CT, Lewiston ME, Manchester ME, Mexico ME, Montréal QC, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Old Orchard Beach ME, Old Town ME, Performing Arts, Portland ME, Religion, Rumford ME, Saco ME, Sand Hill ME, Scarborough ME, St. Albans VT, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Vermont, War, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
The County : Land of Promise
Subtitled, "A Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine." A celebration of Aroostook County's 150th year. A pictorial regional history consisting of general narrative and more intimate, anecdotal accounts of the place in present-day northern Maine known widely as "the County." Illustrated with photographic and other artistic representations. From the inside flap: "Through more than four hundred photographs, drawings, paintings, and maps, the authors have brought to life the County's people in their work and play, in war and peace, in good times and bad."Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Androscoggin River Valley, Art and Architecture, Ashland ME, Blaine ME, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Education, Farming and Agriculture, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Geography, Grand Isle ME, Hamlin ME, Houlton ME, Island Falls ME, Kennebec River Valley, Lille ME, Limestone ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mapleton ME, Mars Hill ME, Music, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New Sweden ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Nova Scotia, Penobscot River Valley, Performing Arts, Presque Isle ME, Religion, Sports and Leisure, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Stockholm ME, Van Buren ME, War, Washburn ME, Westfield ME -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 3 of 4
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal" - Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., "Impact of Epidemic Yellow Fever on Life in Louisiana" - Jo Ann Carrigan, "The New Orleans Sabbath" - Lester R. Shippe (Ed.), "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" - A.L.S., "The Old-Time Mardi Gras" - Charles Lyell, "Dancing Belles and Beaux of Old New Orleans" - Mary Grace Swift, "The Golden Age of Opera, Theater, and the Performing Arts" - Leonard V. Huber, "The French Opera House" and "Opera in New Orleans in Days of Yore" - André Lafargue, "The Crescent City's Charismatic Celebrity: Louis Moreau Gottschalk's New Orleans Concerts" - Wille Prophit, "The French Literature of Louisiana" - Alcée Fortier, "Charles Gayarré and the Philosophy of Progress" - Herbert H. Lang, "A Voodoo Dance" - Charles Dudley Warner, "Voodoo in New Orleans" - Blake Touchstone, "The Opelousas Riot of 1868" - Claude F. Oubre, "The Brazil Exiles: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of St. Landry Parish" - Carl A. Brasseaux, "A Proposed Exhibition of Human Ferocity" and "Vive la France! Bastille Day at New Iberia, 1900" and "Alexandre Mouton and the Sugar Industry" - George A. Stearns, "A Late Nineteenth-Century View of Acadiana: Charles Dudley Warner's 'The Acadian Land'" - James H. Dormon (Ed.), "The Outdoor Oven in Louisiana" - Fred Kniffen, "Louisiana Acadian Domestic Architecture" - R. Warren Robison, "The Pieux Fence" - Mary Alice Fontenot, "Some Southwest Louisiana Toys of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" - Penny Baird, "Acadians and Anglo-American Education" and "The Acadians of Louisiana" - Robert L. Daniels.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Brazil, Business and Economics, Caribbean, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Performing Arts, Religion, Social History, United States -
The Politics of Personal Narrative Methodology
Performance studies theory essay that explores in specific an interview with a Franco-American woman in Maine. From Peterson and Langellier: "Any study of personal narrative involves researchers and performers in contested, hence political, concerns of context and power. These concerns tend to be obscured methodologically by three commonplace assumptions: personal narrative is a text, personal narrative can be fully transcribed and analyzed, and personal narrative is not performance. This essay examines these assumptions and illustrates their methodological implications with an excerpt from an interview narrative with a breast cancer survivor." -
Voyages : A Maine Franco-American Reader
Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance:
Foreword by Nelson Madore Appreciation by the Editors Preface by Michael Michaud Introduction by Barry Rodrigue and Others Gentility on the Frontiers of Acadia, 1635-1674: An Archaeological Perspective, by Alaric Faulkner Eastern Abenaki Autonomy and French Frustrations, 1745-1760, by David Ghere An Album in the Attic: The Forgotten Frontier of the Quebec-Maine Borderlands During the Revolutionary War, by Barry Rodrigue Life on the Farm and Recipes, by Luella and Eva Ashland Roderick Immigrants in a Frontier Community: Madawaska, 1785-1850, by Béatrice Craig An Acadian Odyssey, by Don Cyr Soldiers, Spuds, and Spruce: Maine's Military Roads to the Maritimes, by Barry Rodrigue Understanding the French Canadians of Lewiston, 1860-1900, by Yves Frenette Immigrant Dream - I, by Susann Pelletier Growing Up in Brunswick in the 1930s and 1940s, by Raymond Duval Petit Bois, by Claude Bonang with Katie Camiré Into the Heart of Maine: A Look at Dexter's Franco-American Community, by Dorothy Blanchard Sawdust in My Ear, by Roland Lapointe Franco-American and Lebanese Textile Workers in Waterville: La survivance economique, by Matthew Laflamme "Je ne regrette rien:" Franco-American Women in Maine: Survival, Resiliency, and Community, by Céleste DeRoche A La Mémoire de nos Ancetres (To the Memory of Our Ancestors), by Mercedes Gastonguay The French Catholics in Maine, by Clement Thibodeau Negotiating Ethnic Identity: St. Jean-Baptiste Day Celebrations in Francophone Lewiston, Maine, by Mark Paul Richard Donat Labbé - Woods Cook, by Yvon Labbé The Jackman and Moose River Mission: From France to America with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons, 1904-1932, by Gérard Forgue A New Home, by Paul Caron A Childhood Memory: Midnight Mass at St. Peter's and St. Paul's, by Helen Lévesque Maine's Corporation Sole Controversy, by Michael Guignard The Summer I Was Thirteen, by Denis Ledoux An Introduction to "Life in the Mills" from Canuck, a Novel by Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, by Linda Pervier "Life in the Mills," Excerpt from Canuck, by Camille Lessard-Bissonnette and Linda Pervier An Introduction to Canuck and Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: Why Read It Now?, by Sylvie Charron and Rhea Côté Robbins Franco-Americans and the International Paper Company Strike of 1910, by Anders Larson An Excerpt from Papa Martel, by Gérard Robichaud J'Aimais (I Used to Love), by Jean-Paul Poulain Passing the Flame, by Cindy Larock French-Canadian Genealogical Research, by Bob Chenard Down the Plains, an Excerpt, by Rhea Côté Robbins Calice, by Greg Chabot The Lane Road, 1958, by Susann Pelletier What We Gather in November, by Susann Pelletier How Many Frenchmen Does It Take to..., by C. Stewart Doty The Lessons of Living in a Francophobic World, by Pat LaMarche French Jokes, Anonymous When Funny Might Not Be..., by Ernie Gagné One of Frenchie's Stories: In Heat, by Ernie Gagné La Graine Pousse (The Seed Sprout), by Normand Dubé Everything's Just Finophobia, by Greg Chabot Research Note: Maine "Jim Crow"? The Forgotten Maine Constitutional Amendment of 1891, by Rebecca Dirnfeld A Short Biography for My Daughter, by Raymond Luc Lavasseur Under Wintery Constellation, by Susann Pelletier A ceux qui m'ont offensé (For Those Who Have Offended Me), by Jean-Paul Poulain Franco-American Identity at the University of Maine, by Michael Serizawa Brown Beau Frog, by Peter Archambault Out of the Shadows, by Yvon Labbé Photo-Documentary: Franco-American Work Traditions, by Jere DeWaters A Québec Soldier in Maine, by Barry Rodrigue The Silent Playground, by Ross and Judy Paradis Mémere (Grandmother), by Raymond Luc Lavasseur Tourtiière (Meat Pie), by Philomiène Létourneau Simard and Diane Simard McKenney Voicing Mémière, by Kristin Langellier On Becoming a Franco-American, by Richard Pattenaude She Appears, by Jim Bishop Livres (Books), by Maureen Perry My Writing of La Souillonne (The Filthy Woman), by Normand Beaupré "Qui Chus" (Who I Am), Excerpt from La Souillonne, by Normand Beaupré Franco-Americans and a Century of Political Elections, 1892-1992, by Madeleine Giguière Ad Astra per Aspera - To the Heavens through Hardship: The Franco-American Rise to Political Power in Maine, by Christian Potholm First Campaigns, Georgette Bérubé Maine Franco-Americans in Politics, by John Martin Singing the Vernacular, Excerpts, by Paul Paré Brunswick: A Bridge and Its History, by Julianna L'Heureux Les Non Non Blues (The No No Blues), by Josée Vachon Acadian Ployes, by Emily Clavet Ouellette Martin and Sandra Dionne Croft The Neighborhood, by Michelle Morgan Why Bother? by Michael ParentTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, Food, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Genealogy, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Music, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Nova Scotia, Performing Arts, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Québec, Religion, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Violence, War -
Kill the Devil or Marry an American : Descent and Consent among the Cajuns
Article exploring the development of Cajun ethnic identity through its iterations in modern theatrical performance in Louisiana, in a period of apparent ethnic revival. How Cajun theatre and its use of the French language function in terms of shaping and defining Cajun identity in Louisiana, abroad, and in the dramatic arts. -
Shantytowns in the United States, 1820-1890
From the author: "This dissertation adds a missing piece to the history of the American working class by documenting an overlooked category of low-income housing and the ways in which these self-reliant communities were assigned cultural meanings at odds with their physical form. Using sources that range from photographs and oil paintings to novels and sheet music, the dissertation traces the shanty house type from frontier homesteads to urban shantytowns in turn-of-the-century New York and Brooklyn. It also examines their evolving cultural construction. Presented as domestic by their working-poor builders, shantytowns were nonetheless perceived as degraded by middle-class observers. This had public policy consequences, as shantytowns were razed and outlawed during the last decades of the nineteenth century." -
French Ethnic Literature and Culture in an American City : Holyoke, Massachusetts
From the author: "This study examines the French literary and cultural life of French Canadians in New England with emphasis on Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1869 and 1940. At the turn of the century French Canadians became known as Franco-Americans; they tried to maintain their native language and traditions as American citizens in a New England urban industrial setting....Holyoke's history and its unique character are considered in terms of their effects on the French Canadian settlers....We will attempt to examine Holyoke's French cultural and literary life in the framework of French Canadian life in New England through a general consideration of the French Canadian immigration, the role of the parish, the schools, the family, and societies."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Performing Arts, Poetry, Québec, Religion -
Following the Evangeline Trail : Acadian Identity Performance Across Borders
From the author: "The poem 'Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published in 1847, has had an impact on people for generations. The success of the poem was felt not only by its readership but also by the Acadian culture that the poem, and its heroine, came to represent. Evangeline, as character and poem, has evolved in meaning and popularity over the centuries and still plays a role in the cultural performance of contemporary Acadians....This study of Acadian cultural identity utilizes a performance approach that looks at cultural identity as a performative accomplishment in daily life. The analysis first enacts a performance historiography of the Acadian Deportation in 1755, Longfellow's poetic representation of this historical event, and the contemporary context of performing Evangeline in the Acadian diaspora. Next it examines the storytelling performances of narrative interviews with five Acadians. Three of these Acadians still live in the land of Evangeline, in Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia, and the other two live in Maine. Retellings of the story of Evangeline and reflections on the poem and character by each of the participants were analyzed for meanings which form and inform contemporary performances of Acadian cultural identity. The performance methodology allows for meanings to emerge from the embodied Acadian storytelling and to contextualize them in cultural and political spheres...." -
Mirbah
Un 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. -
Franco-American Literature Today
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. -
Kind Ness
Dramatic 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. -
Mirbah
Un 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.