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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 2010

Language: English

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From the author: "This novel can be seen as a companion work to Beaupré's recent publication on Van Gogh. Both are based on the historical and aesthetic facts surrounding the lives of the two artists, Van Gogh in Arles and Friant in the…

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  • Author: Jack, Belinda Elizabeth

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34557449

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…

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  • Author: Hebert-Leiter, Maria

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 463256338

From LSU Press: "From antebellum times, Louisiana’s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In 'Becoming Cajun, Becoming American,' Maria…

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  • Author: Weisman, Adam

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English and American Literature and Language

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34361480

Also featured, in abridged form, in the Massachusetts Review (see 'Journal Articles'). From the author: "This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2000

Language: English

Find in a Library: 48655561

First novel in a thus far four-part series known as "Le Québécois." From Artenay Press: "This portrayal of early settlement in the St-Lawrence River Valley wilderness in the mid-1600’s represents the broad reality of the French…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 65165055

A sequel to "The Virgin Forest" (2000), second novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Bastien and Marguerite's first Canadian-born descendants face trials and challenges that are quite different from those experienced by…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 607918752

Fourth and final part of "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Bastien and Marguerite’s third and fourth generations struggle through the final stages of imperial conflict between France and Great Britain in North America.…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 122407531

Third novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Three decades of colonial peace and prosperity follow the Treaty of Utrecht. Bastien's three succeeding generations migrate to settle south and west along the Saint Lawrence…

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  • Author: Proulx, E. Annie

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34515071

A startlingly inclusive selection of a century's worth of American immigrant vignettes tied together by the movement of a single accordion. For immigration studies, it is a portrayal attentive in sentiment and beckoning in its concern for the new…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10696788

A later novel from a finalist for the 1979 National Book Award. From Atheneum: "In 1959, a young American journeys to Europe to discover how the people live and finds himself forever transformed by two people, Angela and Vincent, who introduce him to…

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  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 1897 (1847)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27193052

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Maine native Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's search for her love lost. First published in 1847.

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1966

Language:

Find in a Library: 401934

In perhaps the culminating text of Kerouac's "Duluoz Legend," Jack goes to France to dig up the roots and bloodlines beneath his family name and cultural identity. From the 1985 edition: "'Satori in Paris' is a rollicking autobiographical account of…

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  • Author: Tremblay, Remy

Date: 2000

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Géographie

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: fr

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Le résumé de Tremblay: "Dans cette these de doctorat, nous explorons le concept de communauté, lequel appartient à la sociologie mais qui est d'un grand intéret pour les géographes par sa dimension spatiale plutot méconnue.…

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  • Author: Lane, Brigitte Marie

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 21874384

From Lane: "Being Americans of French-Canadian descent, the Franco-Americans of New England possess a rich and original traditional culture which has been little documented up to now, especially in English....As a result, this dissertation, which is…

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  • Author: Shea, Louise Gravel

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: M.A., Geography

Language: fr

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De l'auteur: "Le territoire d'étude de ce mémoire est situé dans le comté du Madawaska, au nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick et dans la partie nord du comte d'Aroostook Maine, c'est-à-dire dans la vallée supérieure de la rivière…

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  • Author: Gauvin, Marie Anne

Date: 1965

Thesis Type: M.S., Modern Languages

Institution: Central Connecticut State College

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 7520406

Find Online: OL12363344W

Historical observations of language usage in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick, focusing on the social, cultural, and linguistic traits maintained by the area's Acadian population. From the author: "This thesis proposes to show how…

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  • Author: Finefrock, Kevin

Date: 2007

Thesis Type: B.A., History, Honors

Institution: Connecticut College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 278099025

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From the author: "In this thesis, I examine how the processes of racialization, immigration, and industrialization caused the emergence of two divergent definitions of ethnic identity in the French‐Canadian community of Québec and the…

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  • Author: Brown, Michael Serizawa

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27201223

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From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American…

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  • Author: Charbonneau, Hubert
  • Author: Desjardins, Bertrand
  • Author: Guillemette, André
  • Author: Landry, Yves
  • Author: Légaré, Jacques
  • Author: Nault, Francois

Date: 1993

Language:

Find in a Library: 27108728

From University of Delaware Press: "This book is the culmination of an enormous project aimed at the identification of the original French migrants to Québec and their descendants in the form of a computerized population register."

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

Find in a Library: 1770272

A preface to this issue of Yale French Studies that focuses upon the idea of "writing in Québec(ois)." Sarkonak traces the North American transition from français, to Canayen, to French Canadian, to québécois, and asks how language and…

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  • Author: Rosello, Mireille

Date: 2003

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

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Professor Rosello writes on Francophone Studies "as a discipline...that can be imagined as a type of unhomeliness," characterized by a variety of conversant cultural or political forms. She argues what Francophone studies is, fluidly - cultural…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2004

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Volume: 17

Language:

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Sur la relation entre l'écriture et l'ethnie franco-americaine de Jack Kerouac dans sa texte 'Satori in Paris.' De l'auteur: "L'Å“uvre de Kerouac crée un lien étroit entre l'ethnie et l'écriture. Ce lien ne se présente pas comme une…

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  • Author: Monnier, Alain

Date: 1987 mai/juin

Publication: Population

Language:

Find in a Library: 478606131

De l'auteur: "13 millions d'Américains se sont déclarés 'd'origine française' lors du recensement de 1980, et un million et demi parlent français chez eux. La notion d'origine française est relativement floue, mais la répartition…

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  • Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.

Date: 1967

Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec

Volume: 11

Language: en

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A concise account of the Acadian migrations between 1750 and 1800, including intercontinental migration routes, community prevalance, and the political context that motivated such a tumultuous half-century in and out of Atlantic Canada.

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  • Author: Lower, A.R.M.

Date: 1929-04

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480335685

Essay-like general sketch of the histories of New England and New France as they move into the migration of French Canadians to the United States around the turn of the 20th century. Some comments on the general intentions of French Canadian…

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  • Author: Ham, Edward B.

Date: 1945 December

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 18

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480410679

Thoughts on political and cultural attitudes in Québec with particular reference to the war effort. Ham interrogates New England French Canadian minority culture to examine more intimately the general political thought-processes of WWII-era…

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  • Author: Gill, Robert M.

Date: 1978 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 8

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

Gill explores French Canadian societies through the lens of its literatures, particularly those coming from Quebec. He introduces his efforts with a brief illustration of the rise and fall of New France, where he claims that French Canadians have…

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  • Author: French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
  • Author: Moreau, Gail

Date: 2001 January

Publication: Journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan

Volume: 22

Language:

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Tricentennial commemorative issue of the FCHS Journal in celebration of Michigan's habitant history. Contains pictures, copies of original written documents, brief articles, biographies, genealogies, etc.

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1997 October

Publication: Journal of Contemporary History

Volume: 32

Language: en

Find in a Library: 477889483

Essay on the Franco American elite's adopted regard for French fascist politics and sentiment in New England. How WWII heightened political divisions in the United States, and the Franco elite failed to appeal politically to working-class Franco…

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  • Author: Davidson, John

Date: 1896-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 8

Language: en

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French-Canadian population growth in Canada as a model for testing the claims of Malthusian economics.

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