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Author | : Raymonde Carroll |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 022611189X |
“Full of colorful anecdotes…tells us a lot about the French but even more about ourselves.”—Los Angeles Times This is an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings, Raymonde Carroll points out, can arise even where we least expect them: in our closest relationships. With revealing vignettes and perceptive observations, she brings to light some fundamental differences in French and American presuppositions about love, friendship, and raising children, as well as such everyday activities as using the telephone or asking for information. “An entertaining, informative book…often witty…a vital source for learning how to establish amity not only between the U.S. and France but among all the world’s nations.”—Publishers Weekly
Author | : Claire Quintal |
Publisher | : Institut Francais of Assumption College |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Yves Roby |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Canadians, French-speaking New England Economic conditions |
ISBN | : 2894483910 |
Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.
Author | : François G. Dreyfus |
Publisher | : Transaction Pub |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780765802408 |
This volume is an edited summary of what transpired at a unique colloquium held in the Salle Mdicis of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris in December 2000, and hosted by the president of the French Senate. The results highlight the importance of historical documentation of this period of tragedy and heroism. Those present acknowledged the special nature of the friendship between France and the United States, more than half a century after that unique time of cooperation between French and Americans during the Resistance. That this friendship has been preserved for more than 225 years, since Benjamin Franklin first visited Paris in the eighteenth century, is extraordinary testimony to its resilience, as well as to the enduring commitment to liberty shared by both countries. The event was charged with the emotion of history. That emotion was given greater meaning by the presence of younger attendees, many of whom had never heard their elders speak publicly about the Unrecognied Resistance.
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : French |
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Author | : Jonathan K. Gosnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803285272 |
"A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--
Author | : Charles Stewart Doty |
Publisher | : Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Madeline Tatara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : French Americans |
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Author | : Jonathan K. Gosnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496207157 |
Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography. In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America long after the formal end of the French empire in the mid-eighteenth century, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or “Franco” identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence, examining institutions of higher learning, literature, folklore, newspapers, women’s organizations, and churches. This study situates Franco-American cultures within the new and evolving field of postcolonial Francophone studies by exploring the story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution and articulation of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World. Gosnell asks what it means to be French, not simply in America but of America.
Author | : David Vermette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781771861694 |