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The Anarchist Heart
Author: Tremblay, BillDate: 1977Publication: New Rivers PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 3084054Volume of poetry from native of Southbridge, Massachusetts and creator of collections "Crying in the Cheap Seats" (1971), "Duhamel" (1986), and the novel "The June Rise" (1994), among other works. Professor in creative writing at Colorado State University. This work is presented in five sections: The Community; Readings; Little Miracles; California; The Anarchist Heart. -
The Way That Water Enters Stone
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 1991 (1997)Publication: NortonLanguage : enFind in a library: 21677261Collection 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 -
The Angel on the Roof
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 2000 (2011)Publication: HarperCollinsLanguage : enSource : Preview (2011 edition)Find in a library: 42861911Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
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. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed EditionsLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewEssay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
The Corpse in the Stone Wall : Annie Proulx's Ironic New England
Author: Ryden, Kent C.Date: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewEssay describing Annie Proulx's critical treatment of New England - in particular, Vermont - in her works of fiction, "Postcards" and "Heart Songs." Tenuous and tenacious relationships of characters to their rural New England landscapes at once idyllic and ruinous. The failures of fictional New England locals and tourists alike, and the "cultural politics" that pit outside economic influence and quaint projections of regional identity against the provincial knowledge afforded in home spaces and local tradition. Comparisons of Proulx's "New England fiction" to her later works set in and about Wyoming. -
David Plante
Author: Silverblatt, Michael (host)Date: 2008-01-10Language : enSource : Summary; hear full programFind in a library: https://francolibrary.com/items/show/2127Radio interview with author David Plante on the occasion of the publication of his novel, "ABC" (Pantheon, 2008). Discussions of Plante's literary engagement with ghosts; with the notions of suffering, belief, and grief; origin and "the ultimate"; and the role of family. Brief discussion of the Providence, Rhode Island Catholic parish cultural milieu of his upbringing. -
Awake
Author: Laux, DorianneDate: 1990Publication: BOA EditionsLanguage : enFind in a library: 22299428Book of poems from Augusta, Maine native and creative writing teacher at North Carolina State University. Contains foreword by Philip Levine. Republished in 2007 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. -
Husbands and Lovers
Author: Poulin, A., Jr.Date: 1984 WinterLanguage : enFind in a library: 8932675Poem from a Lisbon, Maine writer and founder of poetry's BOA Editions. Dedicated to David Plante. Featured in the New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly published by Middlebury College. Republished posthumously in a collection of A. Poulin, Jr's works, "Selected Poems" (2001). -
Requiem, Mass.
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 2008Publication: W.W. Norton & Co.Language : ENSource : Read: PREVIEWFind in a library: 181139334Novel centered around a family of four and a son's retelling of his disrupted youth. An absent, long-haul trucker father and his multiple families; a psychologically troubled mother who claims, among other things, that her children are imposters; an imaginative younger sister; the ubiquitous cat. The real and make-believe characters who intersect the narrator's life at home, school, and wherever his journeys take him in his attempts to save his family - in life or in story. Plays with, and discusses, concepts of fiction and memoir. Written by Worcester, Massachusetts native and teacher of Creative Writing at Florida International University. Winner of the Florida Book Award. -
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
Author: Chute, CarolynDate: 1988Publication: Ticknor & FieldsLanguage : enFind in a library: 17441000The second in a collection of novels by this North Parsonsfield, Maine author. Set in the fictional, rural Maine town of Egypt. A series of vignettes centered around Big Lucien Letourneau, his family, and the other hardscrabble characters in their rural community. Letourneau's auto parts business and all the quirks, love, and violence between the people in his salvage yard/shantytown known as "Miracle City." -
Becoming a Man : Half a Life Story
Author: Monette, PaulDate: 1992Publication: Harcourt Brace JovanovichLanguage : enFind in a library: 24872593Autobiography and coming-out narrative of Paul Monette, an Andover, Massachusetts writer. Monette recounts twenty-five closeted years of alienation and invisibility, explorations of his sexual identity, and observations on the sexual prejudice and violences around him. Growing up working-class in Massachusetts; his ill younger brother; stints at prep-school and Yale in the 1960s; time spent in England; a return to Massachusetts. Written during the battle with AIDS that eventually claimed the author's life. Winner of the 1992 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Republished in 2004. -
The Great Textile Strike of 1934 : Illuminating Rhode Island History in the Thirties
Author: Findlay, James F.Date: 1983-02-00Language : enFind in a library: 1696593Article describing the scope of the Great Textile Strike of 1934 in Rhode Island, in the midst of the Great Depression and the decline of the New England textile industry. The impact of the strike's upheavals on Rhode Island life in the 1930s. The role of the United Textile Workers (UTW) labor union in the nationwide strike, its organization in Rhode Island, and its impact on other labor unions - especially the National Textile Workers (NTW) and the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket (ITU). Localized outbursts of Rhode Island violence and the context for their occurrence. The strike's implications for Rhode Island politics. Illustrated in black and white photographs.Tags Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Newport RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Saylesville RI, Violence, War, Warren RI, West Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
The Buried City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1976 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1590374Short story that finds George returned to his family's New England home and to Hunter, his brother, as they struggle through the emotional aftermath of their mother's funeral. An early work from Providence, Rhode Island-native author of "The Country," "The Family," and the memoir, "American Ghosts." -
Historiography of the Acadians' Grand Dérangement, 1755
Author: Barnes, Thomas GardenDate: 1988Language : enFind in a library: 60628349Historiographical exploration of the Acadians' expulsion from their homeland region in Atlantic Canada in 1755. The roles and functions of oral and written histories on and of this time period. Description, assessment, reasoning, and judgment of the expulsion by British powers as earliest apparent in the work of 19th-century anglophone historians, and in conversation with contemporary metropolitan French historiography. The appearance of Acadian histories of the event around the beginning of the 20th century. Evolving perceptions of the event's breadth and meaning, and the impact of more recent work by scholars and literary figures of Québec and Acadia. -
Husbands and Lovers
Author: Poulin, A., Jr.Date: 1984 WinterLanguage : enFind in a library: 8932675Poem from a Lisbon, Maine writer and founder of poetry's BOA Editions. Dedicated to David Plante. Featured in the New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly published by Middlebury College. Republished posthumously in a collection of A. Poulin, Jr's works, "Selected Poems" (2001) -
Awake
Author: Laux, DorianneDate: 1990Publication: BOA EditionsLanguage : enFind in a library: 22299428Book of poems from Augusta, Maine native and creative writing teacher at North Carolina State University. Contains foreword by Philip Levine. Republished in 2007 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. -
I took my dead father to a Red Sox game
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2012-03-09Language : enSource : Full textShort fiction piece by Waterville, Maine writer, Ron Currie, Jr., about a trip to Fenway Park with his dead father. Published in the online magazine, "Salon," with reference to the author's recent novel, "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" (Viking, 2013). -
David Plante
Author: Silverblatt, Michael (host)Date: 2008-01-10Language : enSource : Summary; hear full programRadio interview with author David Plante on the occasion of the publication of his novel, "ABC" (Pantheon, 2008). Discussions of Plante's literary engagement with ghosts; with the notions of suffering, belief, and grief; origin and "the ultimate"; and the role of family. Brief discussion of the Providence, Rhode Island Catholic parish cultural milieu of his upbringing. -
The Spice of Popery : Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier
Author: Chmielewski, Laura M.Date: 2012Publication: University of Notre Dame PressLanguage : enFind in a library: 726819031Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or of various Protestant and Catholic peoples and ways of living, in a corner of North America during the Colonial Period. The region's interactions between European Protestant settlers, Wabanaki, and French Catholics; the interplay of their various powers and religious varieties; the birth of hybrid borderland cultures; the solidification of religious identities. Particular emphasis on Catholic/Protestant conflicts in this time period and region. Illustrated with maps, portraits, and black and white photographs. Based on the 2006 dissertation of a similar title. -
The Catholicism of Jack Kerouac
Author: Sorrell, Richard S.Date: 1982-sprLanguage : enFind in a library: 1773426Observations of Jack Kerouac's ethnoreligious background - Franco American and Roman Catholic - and what the author describes as one of three "panels of the survivance triptych" : Catholicism. Historical descriptions of the role and actions of the Roman Catholic Church in historic New France, French Canada, Québec, and later in Franco American communities like Kerouac's Lowell, Massachusetts. Franco Catholicism's Jansenist and Manichean tendencies as rooted in early French North American history. Kerouac's early devotion and later rebellion from Catholic practice, with an ever persistent reflection of and fascincation with select observably Catholic conditions and attitudes, including the themes of guilt and suffering apparent in his recorded life and works. Shades of Catholicism in "Beat Movement" mystical and anti-material mores, and intersections with Kerouac's attentions to Buddhism. Selected revelations of Kerouac's interior life, sexual life, and moral concerns as found in his literature and in select quotation. -
The Ku Klux Klan in the Nashoba Valley, 1840-1933
Author: Wolkovich-Valkavicius, WilliamDate: 1990-winLanguage : enFind in a library: 6420039Article describing nativist, anti-Catholic sentiment in rural Massachusetts's Nashoba Valley in the nineteenth and early twentieth century - including the towns of Shirley, Groton, and Pepperell. Negative local attitudes toward Irish and French Canadian immigrants made explicit in religious and educational contexts in what was an historically, homogeneously Protesant region. Several instances of interreligious tolerance and amicability in the same region. World War I and the regional rise in size and influence of the Ku Klux Klan. Characterizations of the KKK in New England - particularly Massachusetts, and Groton therein - in the first decades of the twentieth century, with select examples of growth, assembly, and violent discrimination.Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fitchburg MA, Groton MA, Irish Americans, Lithuanian Americans, Littleton MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nashoba Valley MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Pepperell MA, Polish Americans, Religion, Shirley MA, Townsend MA, Violence, West Groton MA -
Inside, Looking Out
Author: Lemay, HardingDate: 1971Publication: Harper & RowLanguage : enFind in a library: 136962Memoir of famed television soap opera writer and playwright, Harding Lemay. From his tumultuous early youth - one of thirteen children - on a New York farm along the Canadian border, to his lonely escape to New York City at the age of 17 and the friends who find him there. His later military training and participation in World War II in Europe. Back to Manhattan to one failed and one successful marriage, and to live and work among books: in libraries, with publishing executives, and finally as a writer. His persistent love of books and struggles with language. -
The Corpse in the Stone Wall : Annie Proulx's Ironic New England
Author: Ryden, Kent C.Date: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 233030405Essay describing Annie Proulx's critical treatment of New England - in particular, Vermont - in her works of fiction, "Postcards" and "Heart Songs." Tenuous and tenacious relationships of characters to their rural New England landscapes at once idyllic and ruinous. The failures of fictional New England locals and tourists alike, and the "cultural politics" that pit outside economic influence and quaint projections of regional identity against the provincial knowledge afforded in home spaces and local tradition. Comparisons of Proulx's "New England fiction" to her later works set in and about Wyoming. -
Postnational United States Regional Hinterlands : Proulx's Ethnic Working-Class Communities in Accordion Crimes
Author: Werden, DouglasDate: 2009Publication: Lexington BooksLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 233030405Essay analyzing Annie Proulx's novel, "Accordion Crimes," according to the ethnic groups, working-classes, and cultural identities its characters simultaneously challenge and represent. A mid-1990s United States commentary on assimilation, acculturation, race, and place-identity in which this article's author situates the novel. The symbol of the accordion across cultural and geographic lines, within and across certain immigrant communities in the United States, in environments that temper American myths of upward mobility, and within musical communities of diverse qualities.Tags African Americans, Basque, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Creoles, German Americans, Immigration, Iowa, Italian Americans, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Maine, Mexican Americans, Minnesota, Montana, Music, Polish Americans, Québec, Sicilian Americans, Viennese Americans, Violence -
Disobedient Ancestors
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2009-spr/sumLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 52243319Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)Language : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Soldiers from the Farther North : A Research Note on Canadians in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Author: Blaine, NicholasDate: 2013-sprLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 124093360Article describing the participation of French and English Canadians in the United States Civil War. Justifications for participation - economic, political, personal, and otherwise - from primary and secondary source literature. Domestic Canadian and international implications for Canadian activity in US war. Complications of citizenship and participant moral attitudes toward nationalism, slavery, and other issues. Questions directed toward the complexities surrounding wartime immigration, travel, and/or displacement, and suggestions for further research in family and other archival collections. -
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. -
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. -
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 road trip from Oregon to the East Coast. -
The Angel on the Roof
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 2000 (2011)Publication: HarperCollinsLanguage : enSource : Preview (2011 Edition)Find in a library: 42861911Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
The Way That Water Enters Stone
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 1991 (1997)Publication: NortonFind in a library: 20th century; New England; Louisiana; FloridaTags 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 -
The Anarchist Heart
Author: Tremblay, BillDate: 1977Publication: New Rivers PressVolume of poetry from native of Southbridge, Massachusetts and creator of collections "Crying in the Cheap Seats" (1971), "Duhamel" (1986), and the novel "The June Rise" (1994), among other works. Professor in creative writing at Colorado State University. This work is presented in five sections: The Community; Readings; Little Miracles; California; The Anarchist Heart.