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- Author: Banks, Russell
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 10998820
Find Online: OL35483W ; OL15136638W
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Novel 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…
- Author: Béchard, Deni Y.
Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 758646813
Find Online: OL8053238W
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Novel 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…
- Author: Werden, Douglas
Date: 2009
Book Title: The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx : Rethinking Regionalism
Language: en
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Essay 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,…
- Author: Frater, Graham
Date: 1996
Book Title: Willa Cather and European Cultural Influences
Language: en
Find in a Library: 33819491
Descriptions of immigrant Americans in the literary works of Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather. What immigrant experiences lend to each author's thematic details. Jewett's characterizations of French Canadian and Irish characters in New England…