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  • Author: Aylward, Susan L.

Date: 1998

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English

Institution: University of Rhode Island

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40702182

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From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and…

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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2001 October/November

Publication: Eclectica

Volume: 5

Language: English

Find in a Library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370158292

Short story about the appearances of a stray dog coinciding with a young man's confrontations with death. Throughout the story, especially while reckoning with the fatal illness of his once lively mother, the man struggles through a disabling…

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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2001 July/August

Publication: Eclectica

Volume: 5

Language: English

Find in a Library: 370158292

Short story about the relationship between father and son. The father, a Vietnam War veteran who speaks little of his war experience, narrates the persistence of a son whose interest in his father's war involvement drives both son and father to ask…

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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2007

Book Title: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond

Language: English

Find in a Library: 71800711

Short story about French-Canadian grandparents, the pull of family, and irrevocable realities of class and culture. From the Waterville, Maine author of "God is Dead" and "Everything Matters!"

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1994 Summer

Publication: The South Atlantic Quarterly

Volume: 93

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1642494, 42413446

Short autobiographical essay from writer David Plante on his youth in a Franco American, Roman Catholic parish of twentieth-century Providence RI. Considers some influences on, and tendencies in, his writing. Republished, along with other articles in…

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  • Author: Robbins, Rhea CoÌ‚té

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical piece on the lives and literatures of three Franco American authors - Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, and Grace Metalious. Argument claiming the existence of a Franco American women's literary tradition, the…

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  • Author: Rice-DeFosse, Mary

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical essay on Waterville, Maine writer Rhea CoÌ‚té Robbins' 1997 memoir, "Wednesday's Child." Explores Robbins' work as it speaks newly to concepts of gender, cultural difference, and the specificity of a Franco American's experiences of…

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  • Author: Hamburger, Aaron

Date: 2005 April/May

Publication: Lamba Book Report

Volume: 13

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60637124

Interview with Providence, Rhode Island, native and professor of creative writing at Columbia University, David Plante, whose works of fiction have achieved wide acclaim since the 1970s. Plante answers questions about gay writing, his education,…

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  • Author: Choquette, Leslie

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

"Par le mythe de la Nouvelle-France," Choquette écrit, "je veux dire la persistance...d'un vision nostalgique du Québec." Alors, elle commence à décrire en quelle façon les écritures de Camille Lessard et Honoré Beaugrand - deux…

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  • Author: Brière, Eloise A.

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Un essai qui explore l'étendue de l'imagination culturel des écrivains culturellement hybride en Amérique. De l'auteur: "Dans quelle mesure les Haitiens devenus écrivains Québécois ou les Canadiens-francais devenus écrivains…

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  • Author: Shideler, Janet Lee

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32273493

The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a québécoise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the…

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  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 47671730

Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…

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  • Author: Genest, Eloise

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49396582

A 21st-century novel about Louisiana's colonial period, and the demise of French power on the North American continent before the end of the 1700s.. From Amazon.com: " It is the period of the Enlightenment in France and Europe, and early French…

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  • Author: Field, Rachel

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4411669

Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…

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  • Author: Chassé, Paul P.

Date: 1977

Language: Français, with some English

Find in a Library: 5280413

Un livre qui raconte les vies de quelques franco-américain(e)s artistiques dans les milieux de l'écrire, le peintre, la poésie, les chansons, etc. Des sélections de leurs ouevres populaires. Présenté avec des…

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  • Author: Chartier, Armand

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 10358959

From the catalog description: "A 'petite anthologie' of ten 19th and 20th century French-American authors." Includes selections from their work, chosen as literary representations of the Franco American ethnic reality up to the second half of the…

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  • Author: Chabot, Grégoire

Date: 1996

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 34983292

Grégoire Chabot’s triple collection sits English and French texts face-to-face in a small variety of dramatics and family humor, where characters carry in tow a heavy load of self-pity, but where comedic endings refuse to resign any one of…

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  • Author: Cather, Willa

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 167912

Novel set in seventeenth-century Canada - New France - maneuvering between a widower, his family and guests, and the great political figures of the time. Written by Cather out of a brief obsession with Québec and French Canada in the early…

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  • Author: Cather, Willa

Date: 1927

Language: English

Find in a Library: 346243

The famed Middle-American author of "O Pioneers!" writes a novel about French Catholic priests on a mission to New Mexico in the middle of the nineteenth century. Cather writes out Mexican custom and Roman faith as they merge in the desert at the…

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  • Author: Caffee, Gabrielle Leboeuf

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 266161022

Experimental, semi-biographical fiction about the movement of people and culture through Bas Canada et les États-Unis. A self-proclaimed "case study" of imagined ancestral movement from North to South, and the evolution of culture along that…

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  • Author: Chiasson, Herménégilde

Date: 1987

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 40932967

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Part-fiction documentary on the life and works of Jack Kerouac, a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, most famous for his Beat Generation novel, "On the Road." Pris de l'ONF: "Docufiction sur Jack Kerouac, un des membres les plus importants du…

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  • Author: Séguin, Fernand (ressource)

Date: 1967 mars 7

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 576092757, 631883971, 77245890, 428079542

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Du ''Sel de la Semaine'' animé par Fernand Séguin à Radio-Canada. Contiens une interview avec Jack Kerouac sur sa vie et ses oeuvres, un métrage de Lowell, Massachusetts des années 1960s, et des interviews publiques avec des hommes…

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  • Author: Lerner, Richard (director)

Date: 1986

Language: English (with Italian subtitles)

Find in a Library: 52960431

Documentary about Franco American writer Jack Kerouac, the American literary and cultural movement spurred on by what is known as the "Beat Generation, and the countdown of Kerouac's final days. Features support from the following persons: Allen…

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  • Author: Deb, Siddhartha

Date: 2007 September 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

New York Times review of Providence-born writer David Plante's recent novel, "ABC."

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  • Author: Anctil, Gabriel

Date: 2007 septembre 5

Publication: Le Devoir

Language:

Find in a Library: 18514599

Du Devoir: "Alors qu'on célèbre le 50e anniversaire de la parution d''On the Road,' la découverte de manuscrits inédits à New York par Le Devoir montre que l'écrivain souhaitait écrire en français et qu'il avait même…

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  • Author: Carter, George F.

Date: 1905 March 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1905 letter to the editor on the recent discovery that New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne had supplied fellow New England writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the theme for his famous story in verse, "Evangeline."

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  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35289877

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Essay collection on the diverse aspects of Franco American community and life in New England. Emphases on French Canadian immigration to New England; religion, education, and community life; and Franco American literature. Includes a wide range of…

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  • Author: Toth, Emily

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 39800550

Biography of the author of "The Awakening." From University Press of Mississippi: "In 'Unveiling Kate Chopin,' Emily Toth, the foremost authority on Chopin's life and works, creates a sharply revealing portrait of a modern woman in a Victorian world.…

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  • Author: Hamel, Réginald
  • Author: Hare, John
  • Author: Wyczynski, Paul

Date: 1989

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 21163604

Index d'auteurs (biographique, bibliographique) nord-américains qui écrivent dans la langue française.

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  • Author: LaVergne, Marcel

Date: 2008 February

Language: Français and English

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A brief and general history of French Canadian immigration to New England around the turn of the century, followed by a list of Franco-American writers, their works, and a selection of excerpts.

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