Quebec Studies articles from March 2002

Quebec Studies archives from March 2002

Presentation: Robert G. LeBlanc and Franco-America.
March 22, 2002... We, in North America, all lost something in the events of September 11, 2001. But many of us were also able to find meanings we may never have realized were lost or buried beneath the rubble that accumulates in all lives. We all lost Bob...

Robert G. LeBlanc, 1930-2001.(Biography)
March 22, 2002... Each of us who knew Robert LeBlanc knew him differently. Some of us knew him as a geographer. Others as a scholar of Franco-Americans. Still others as the Franco-American he was. Most of us also knew him as a friend. All of us felt lessened...

Franco-American studies in the footsteps of Robert G. LeBlanc.
March 22, 2002... Franco-Americans constitute ten to twenty-five percent of New England state populations. (1) Composed of Acadian settlements in northern Maine that date back to the eighteenth century and communities of French Canadians, most of whom immigrated...

Sur les routes de l'Amerique francaise: l'experience des geographes lavallois (1).
March 22, 2002... "C'est la memoire enfouie qui surgit de ces experiences multiples. Des lieux et des gens totalement inconnus mais tenement familiers, suspendus dans l'infini americain." --Eric Waddell (1994, 215) Introduction Apprivoiser...

L'abbe Lionel Groulx et les consequences de l'emigration canadienne-francaise aux Etats-Unis (1).
March 22, 2002... Pretre, historien, romancier et intellectuel nationaliste, l'abbe Lionel Groulx (1878-1967) s'interessait fortement a la survivance des minorites francaises du continent nord-americain. Sa conception ethnoreligieuse de la nation embrassait tous...

Remi Tremblay: portrait d'un Franco-americain patriote (1).
March 22, 2002... Parmi les Franco-americains de passage, tels que les surnomme Rosaire Dion-Levesque, "nul n'est plus remarquable que Remi Tremblay qui fut un grand animateur de la presse franco-americaine a ses debuts, et qui fut le premier emigre canadien a...

The ethnicity of clerical leadership: the Dominicans in francophone Lewiston, Maine, 1881-1986.
March 22, 2002... Scholars of the Quebec diaspora have little explored the role of Quebec elites in the persistence of French-Canadian culture in the northeastern United States. One notable exception was the late Robert G. LeBlanc, who was passionately...

Louisiana francophones: origins and evolution since 1673.
March 22, 2002... Francophone Louisiana is far more diverse and complex in its origins and evolution than most non-Louisianians generally assume. While the Acadians who settled there following their expulsion from the Canadian Maritimes during what became known...

"Nous irons (... nous encore) a Old Orchard c't'ete?": popular culture, the media, and Quebecois vacationing on the New England Coast.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... The writings of Robert G. LeBlanc belong to a growing body of academic literature which examines the filiation between French-speaking people from Atlantic Canada and Quebec and those of French heritage living in New England. The perpetuation...

Le mythe de la Nouvelle-France en Nouvelle-Angleterre.
March 22, 2002... Par le mythe de la Nouvelle-France en Nouvelle-Angleterre, je veux dire la persistance, parmi les immigrants canadiens-francais des villes industrielles des Etats-Unis, d'une vision nostalgique du Quebec. Rural, hierarchique et catholique, le...

Langue d'ecriture et transculture: le cas des francophones des Ameriques.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Avec l'avenement des litteratures postcoloniales la notion de litterature nationale a cesse d'aller de soi car la colonisation, avec ses vastes ensembles supraethniques a secrete les germes de l'hybridite culturelle que nous connaissons...

An interview with Gregoire Chabot.(Interview)
March 22, 2002... According to Gregoire Chabot, a Franco-American author from Newburyport, Massachusetts, the most important quality in a writer is critical thinking, which is the only guarantee of creativity. Engaged in current social debates, the author has an...

Entre la manie et la phobie: extraits.
March 22, 2002... Introduction La plupart des Franco-Americains passent leurs vies voyageant entre deux endroits: la manie, qui se trouve un peu a l'ouest des Grands Tetons, et la phobie qui se trouve au sud de l'extreme-onction. Peu importe notre ville...

Wednesday's child: excerpts.(Short Story)
March 22, 2002... Collette et manchettes, 2 cents "BUANDERIE DE FALL RIVER! FALL RIVER LAUNDRY, No. 24, rue Hartwell, Collette et manchettes, 2 cents, piece tapis battus et nettoyes a la vapeur, 4 cents la verge. Linge lave, empese, repasse ...