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Book La Chasse Galerie  and Other Canadian Stories

Download or read book La Chasse Galerie and Other Canadian Stories written by Honoré Beaugrand and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Connections

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  • Author : Andrew N. Wegmann
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2020-11-04
  • ISBN : 0807174564
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book French Connections written by Andrew N. Wegmann and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real conceptualizations of “Frenchness” and “Frenchification,” this volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the development of French colonial societies and the collective identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit, Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this perspective, separate “spheres” of French colonial culture merge to reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new, progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L. Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range of concentrations.

Book The Invisible French

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  • Author : Thomas Maxwell
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 1977-07-01
  • ISBN : 0889207097
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Invisible French written by Thomas Maxwell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1977-07-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, Toronto's image as a rather staid, predominantly British community, has been transformed through massive immigration into what has been aptly described as a "salad bowl" of identifiable ethnic communities with their characteristic languages, neighbourhoods, shops, newspapers, radio programs and sporting events.

Book Bloodstoppers   Bearwalkers

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  • Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780299227142
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Bloodstoppers Bearwalkers written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote and rugged, Michigan's Upper Peninsula (fondly known as "the U.P.") has been home to a rich variety of indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants--a heritage deeply embedded in today's "Yooper" culture. Ojibwes, French Canadians, Finns, Cornish, Poles, Italians, Slovenians, and others have all lived here, attracted to the area by its timber, mineral ore, and fishing grounds. Mixing local happenings with supernatural tales and creatively adapting traditional stories to suit changing audiences, the diverse inhabitants of the U.P. have created a wealth of lore populated with tricksters, outlaws, cunning trappers and poachers, eccentric bosses of the mines and lumber camps, "bloodstoppers" gifted with the lifesaving power to stop the flow of blood, "bearwalkers" able to assume the shape of bears, and more. For folklorist Richard M. Dorson, who ventured into the region in the late 1940s, the U.P. was a living laboratory, a storyteller's paradise. Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers, based on his extensive fieldwork in the area, is his richest and most enduring work. This new edition, with a critical introduction and an appendix of additional tales selected by James P. Leary, restores and expands Dorson's classic contribution to American folklore. Engaging and well informed, the book presents and ponders the folk narratives of the region's loggers, miners, lake sailors, trappers, and townsfolk. Unfolding the variously peculiar and raucous tales of the U.P., Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers reveals a vital component of Upper Midwest culture and a fascinating cross-section of American society.

Book La Chasse galerie

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  • Author : Honore Beaugrand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-08-27
  • ISBN : 9781975831790
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book La Chasse galerie written by Honore Beaugrand and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Chasse-galerie (The Hunt of Gallery) also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" is a French Canadian tale of voyageurs who make a deal with the Devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt. In Quebec, the legend of the "chasse-galerie", or the bewitched canoe, is a favourite. Its most famous version was written by Honor� Beaugrand (1848 - 1906?).Il s'agit de l'histoire de b�cherons de la Gatineau qui font un pacte avec le diable afin de faire voler un canot pour qu'ils puissent rendre visite � leurs femmes. Il devront cependant �viter de blasph�mer durant la travers�e, ne point heurter le canot aux clochers d'une �glise et �tre de retour avant six heures le lendemain matin. Dans le cas contraire ceux-ci perdraient leurs �mes. La version la plus connue est celle �crite par Honor� Beaugrand.

Book Cajun Country

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  • Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2009-09-28
  • ISBN : 1628467762
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Cajun Country written by Barry Jean Ancelet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today—cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

Book Stealing the Show

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  • Author : Gunda Lambton
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780773511897
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Stealing the Show written by Gunda Lambton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Highlights the artistic achievements of seven prominent Canadian women artists: Marcelle Ferron, Anne Kahane, Rita Letendre, Gathie Falk, Joyce Wieland, Jerry Grey, and Colette Whiten ... who received most of the commissions awarded to women between 1958 and 1988.

Book Journal of American Folklore

Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Right of Way

Download or read book The Right of Way written by Gilbert Parker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature and Painting In Quebec

Download or read book Literature and Painting In Quebec written by William J. Berg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent images and themes within these creations through the most significant periods in the development of a Quebecois identity that was threatened initially by the wilderness and indigenous populations, and later by the dominance of British and American influences. Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood. As such, Literature and Painting in Quebec presents a new perspective to approach the notion of national identity, a quest that few groups have engaged in more persistently than the Quebecois.

Book TFF X  Ten years of The Future Fire

Download or read book TFF X Ten years of The Future Fire written by Djibril al-Ayad and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X for ten years, X for marking out a spot in the genre, X for the unknown variable that changes the status quo. This anthology is a mix of reprints from the first decade of The Future Fire magazine, and new, experimental, unusual or aspirational pieces that push boundaries or play games that might tickle Borges, Calvino and Kafka. With both old and new stories, the editors hope to give a taste of what they'd like to see more of in the next decade, and in the process supply voracious readers with 29 short stories and other pieces of writing full of progressive ideas, underrepresented voices, socially important tales, and of course entertaining, quality fiction! This paper book gives the stories, half of them previously published but in digital form only, another time and space to be enjoyed in.

Book Ghost Brothers

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  • Author : Rony Blum
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780773528284
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Ghost Brothers written by Rony Blum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rony Blum explores how "phantom-mediated" interpretations of the past and present were key to the uniquely successful relationship that developed between French settlers and Natives in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s Magazine

Download or read book Harper s Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Book The Century

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 984 pages

Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Ramsay Cook and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1966 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet version contains all the information in the 14 volume print and CD-ROM versions; fully searchable by keyword or by browsing the name index.