The People of Survivance : Franco-Americans in New England
Item
Title
The People of Survivance : Franco-Americans in New England
Creator
Frost, Juliana
Description
Thesis on late twentieth-century New England Franco American literature and some of its creators - John Dufresne, Dorianne Laux, Steven Riel, Denis Ledoux, Susann Pelletier, Bill Tremblay, David Rivard - couched in a culture-specific analysis of historical identity and psychological debt. How these literary figures and their work at once inform and are informed by regional and familial experiences of ethnicity, language, religion. Close-readings of their work informed by writings of psychoanalysts Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva.
Publisher
New Haven, Connecticut
Date
1992
Language
en
Type
Thesis
Identifier
Coverage
20th century; New England
URL
http://www.consuls.org/record=b1549100~S3