This article explores cultural traditions from a little-known corner of the francophone world, what specialists call Franco-America. It represents a fertile site for reexamination of francophone postcolonial cultures. Beginning in the nineteenth century, French Canadians traveled to New England mill towns in search of work, established ethnic communities, and progressively became Franco-Americans. Today, endogamous Franco enclaves have all but disappeared, but French cultural expressions persist. Jack Kerouac is the most wellknown representative of this obscure French life. Franco-American written cultures, the focus of this essay, shed light on a distinct immigrant experience in the United States.
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Franco-American Cultures in a New World Perspective
Jonathan Gosnell
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
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- Research Article
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- 96–118 (23 total)
Book Reviews
Madeline Woker, Caroline Ford, and Jonathan Gosnell
Owen White, The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020).
Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad's Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
Charlotte Ann Legg, The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860–1914 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 128–137 (10 total)