Browse Items (4 total)

• Odyssey of Love

  A biography of Westbrook, Maine, native, Sister Marie Ange Larrivee, a nun in the Order of the Presentation of Mary. Stories that take us from her youth in Westbrook, through her Canadian religious education, all the way to her travels in Europe and her experiences of World War II in France. From a Rumford, Maine, author.

  Tags Biddeford ME, Canada, Dixfield ME, Education, Europe, Family, France, Gender and Sexuality, Island Pond VT, Maine, Methuen MA, Mexico ME, Music, New York NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Switzerland, Travel and Movement, War, Westbrook ME
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  The Origins and Development of French-Canadian Family Names

  From the author:"Although most French-Canadian surnames bear a strong resemblance to those found in France today, many have undergone various types of orthographical and phonological alterations which make them unique in the French-speaking world. Further contributing to this singularity is the admixture of a substantial number of French names from other countries (Belgium, Switzerland) as well as non-French names from France (Basque Country, Brittany, Alsace-Lorrain) and elsewhere (Germany, Ireland, United States, Spain, etc.) This article is an attempt to provide an account of the origins and development of this amalgam of family names."

  Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Belgium, Canada, Family, France, Genealogy, Germany, Ireland, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Québec, Spain, Switzerland, United States
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  History of the Huguenot Emigration to America : Volumes I and II

  Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only concerns Huguenot history as it relates to New England. Volume 2 concerns "the Middle and Southern provinces or States - in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware - and in Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina."

  Tags Acadians, Antilles, Brazil, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, England, Family, Florida, France, Massachusetts, Native Americans, New England, New Rochelle NY, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, South Carolina, Staten Island NY, Switzerland, War

• Francophone Literatures : An Introductory Survey

  From Oxford University Press: "The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transformation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous French-speaking areas around the world, including Africa, French Canada, and both the Caribbean and Indian Ocean Creole islands, among others. Moving region by region, Jack details the ways in which the most important authors establish a post-colonial and linguistically and culturally unique literary tradition while they subvert--through rewriting, parody, and pastiche--the established French literary tradition. More importantly, she suggests a new critical approach for understanding these various French-speaking cultures and, consequently, the French culture which they recast and subvert."

  Tags Africa, Belgium, Canada, Caribbean, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, France, Haiti, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Poetry, Québec, Switzerland