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  • Author: Fuller, Jacquie Giasson

Date: 1994

Book Title: The Quotable Moose: A Contemporary Maine Reader

Language: English

Find in a Library: 45731570

Short story about Maureen, a young woman with distant Maine roots, returning to her "homeland" in a town like Lewiston. Her roommate, Cecile, and the dog named "Bo" that was left in their care with the departure of Cecile's husband. First published…

  • Author: Lessard-Bissonnette, Camille

Date: 1936

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8517171

Ce roman franco-américain essentiel commence en 1900 avec l'arrivée à Lowell, Massachusetts d'immigrants canadiens-français. La nouvelle vie de travail de Victoria (Vic) Labranche, quinze ans, dans les moulins de Lowell.…

  • Author: Gastonguay, Alberte

Date: 1933

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 7724259

L'histoire de Jeanne, fille de Jean, dans le Petit Canada de la ville de Lewiston, Maine, au debut du XXe siècle. Le mort de sa mère, la fierté de son père, sa foi catholique, et les luttes qu'elle endure avec l'amour dans…

  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1984

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 18136947

Le cinquième colloque de l'Institut français du Collège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 16-17 mars 1984. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle,"…

  • Author: Fuller, Jacquie Giasson

Date: 1993 Winter

Publication: Puckerbrush Review

Volume: 11

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10990654

Short fiction set in the author's Bateston, Maine. A man narrates a brief trip to Cecile's Market. His thoughts while limping home with a bag of groceries. Part I of The Façade, a novel in progress.

  • Author: Fuller, Jacquie Giasson

Date: 1993 Winter

Publication: Puckerbrush Review

Volume: 11

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10990654

Short fiction set in the author's Bateston, Maine. Madame Simone Lavoie narrates suppertime at home with her family - daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Mémère's illness and some of the changes it has forced on her routine. Dinner…

  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1982

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 16057111

Le deuxième colloque de l'Institut français du Collège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 14 mars 1981. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle," publié…

  • Author: Woolfson, Peter

Date: 1976 Summer

Publication: Louisiana Review

Volume: 5

Language: English

Find in a Library: 42960124

Critical essay exploring some of the cultural values and worldviews perceived in the contexts and characters of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction. Considers concepts of work, sin, individualism, and time, in particular, as supported in cultural…

  • Author: Senécal, André

Date: 1994

Book Title: Langue, espace, société: Les variétés du français en Amérique du Nord

Volume: 4

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 34478167

Essai qui identifie les plus anciennes des romans québec-américains, et qui explore les façons dont ces écrits reflètent l'expérience québec-américain vers le début du XXe siècle. Comprend les romans suivants: "Jeanne la…

  • Author: Johnson State College

Date: 1972

Publication: ISLE : A Magazine for the Arts

Volume: Unknown

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

Small publication featuring poetry, fiction, and visual art from students at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont. Contains the following works: POETRY: "It Was Haunted Wood," "He Works Unhurried" by Robert Chamberlain "Daydream," "Opiated…

  • Author: Hébert, Richard

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10866546

Novel told in parallel stories of a father and son. An American artist's eventual return to Canada in search of an identity in the place of his father's birth and death; the father's youthful departure from Quebec to New England many years before.…

  • Author: Maher, Paul, Jr.

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 52347737

Recent historical biography of Lowell, Massachusetts writer, Jack Kerouac. Based largely on primary sources. Written by an independent scholar whose childhood and later life was also spent in Lowell.

  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2011 March 28

Publication: E-rea

Volume: 8

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

Read: Read/Lire: FULL TEXT/TEXTE INTÉGRAL

Critical reading of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road," through the lens of French mobility in America and Kerouac's Franco American cultural identity. How Kerouac's traveling characters signify and explore the "homelessness" that the…

  • Author: Beauchemin, Raymond

Date: 2011 November 18

Language: English

Find in a Library: 712851483

From Guernica Editions: "Songwriter Michel Laflamme is stuck in traffic on Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge. While waiting for police to try to talk down a potential suicide, Michel turns on the radio and hears his wife, Bijou, founding member of…

  • Author: Bibeau, Gilles

Date: 2004

Publication: Anthropologie et Sociétés

Volume: 28

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 613061578

Essai qui explore l'écriture de Kerouac à travers son auto-identification ethnique, et en tant que participant à la production d'un mythe création franco-américaine. Comment cette lecture de Kerouac se compare à sa renommée comme…

  • Author: Mitchell, Jacqueline

Date: 1977 December - 1978 January

Publication: Maine Magazine

Volume: 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 25733085

Short story about a millworking, mothering woman living in poverty, and the effects of the mill's environment on her dreams and waking life.

  • Author: The Maine I. D.E.A.

Date: 1980

Language: English et français

Find in a Library: 191091577

A collection of lesson plans in the subjects of language and social studies, pre-school through high school, with content fitting to the history and languages of Franco American students in York County, Maine. Lessons and suggested materials for use…

  • Author: Desbiens, Patrice (rédacteur/editor)
  • Author: Dupont, Louis (rédacteur/editor)
  • Author: Ferland, Rémi (rédacteur/editor)
  • Author: Paquin, Nicole (rédacteur/editor)
  • Author: Waddell, Eric (rédacteur/editor)
  • Author: Wicht, Serge (rédacteur/editor)

Date: 1987-1989

Publication: N'importe quelle route

Volume: 1, 2, 3

Language: Français and English

Un revue/bulletin bilingue de la littérature et la culture, publié par le Club Jack Kérouac de Québec, Québec. Les premiers numéros contiennent des écrits sur et inspirés par la vie et l'œuvre…

  • Author: Clément, Antoine (rédacteur)

Date: 1948

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 301493649

Find Online: OL11745244W

Une publication de conférences - historiques, artistiques, académiques, culturels - faites par divers intervenants américains et internationaux au Cercle de Lowell, une branche de la Fédération de l'Alliance…

  • Author: Clemons, Joan

Date: 2010 August 12

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

A WERU FM community radio broadcast of readings by two Maine writers, Rhea Côté Robbins and Trudy Chambers Price. Côté Robbins, who introduces her readings with a short talk on violence at home and in the workplace, shares from a…

  • Author: Senécal, Joseph André

Date: 1996-05

Publication: Facsimile

Volume: 15

Language: en

Find in a Library: 16688223, 212381696

A brief historical essay commenting on the wide and various publication of French language periodicals (dailies and other newspapers) in New England and Quebec during the period of great cross-border migration, between 1860 and 1930. The author's…

  • Author: Senécal, André

Date: 1995

Book Title: Identité et cultures nationales : l’Amérique française en mutation

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 32091322

Une discussion sur les rôles et formes historiques de ce que l'auteur appelle «la littérature franco-américaine.» D'abord, comme la voix du Québec en exil, comme des expressions de sympathie américaine…

  • Author: Beaupré, Normand R.

Date: Unknown

Language: English et français

Find in a Library: Unknown

Some of the author's reflections on his narrative choices - his characters' accents, dialects, and dictions - in his first French language novel, "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs." Some thoughts on the relationships and distinctions between continental…

  • Author: Langlois, Ron

Date: 1977-11-00

Publication: Yankee

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 34796734

Short story about a troublesome boy in Catholic school on a day the class prepares to make confessions to their parish priest. The boy's scolding from his teacher, Mother Camille, his worrying over which sins he will tell, and the unpredictable…

  • Author: Guillet, Ernest B.

Date: 1981

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 8528351

Essai-livre sur la journal (quotidien, hebdomadaire, etc.) de la langue francaise pour les Franco-Américains dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècles. Son importance historique et culturelle.…

  • Author: Rooks, Douglas

Date: 1988 December 1

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60630676, 8814143

Review of "What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America" (1988), a book of short stories from Lisbon Falls, Maine, writer, Denis Ledoux.

  • Author: Chute, Carolyn

Date: 1985

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10996872

The first in a collection of novels set in and about the fictional rural Maine town of Egypt. A series of vignettes inviting us into the world of the sprawling and raucous Bean family, often through the eyes of their neighbor, Earlene Pomerleau.…

  • Author: Bonnie, Fred

Date: 1979

Language: English

Find in a Library: 5765399

A collection of short stories from Maine native and Alabama writer, Fred Bonnie. Back cover reads: "Fred Bonnie traces his family back to Calixte Bonin, a migrant from Quebec who went to Maine a hundred years ago. Ever since then his family has…

  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2004

Book Title: Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood

Language: English

Find in a Library: 54685384, 607202903, 607814761

Short story featured in a collection of writings about mothers and motherhood. A man, the narrator, recalls caring for and conversing with his dying mother. Written by the Waterville, Maine author of "God is Dead" (2007) and "Everything Matters!"…

  • Author: Bonnie, Fred

Date: 1987

Language: English

Find in a Library: 15221260

Collection of Maine fiction by a Portland, Maine native. Features "The State Meet," a story of a struggling student persuaded by his high school teacher and coach, Fr. Polaski, to join the cross country team. The team travels together by bus to…