Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gosnell, Jonathan K. (1966-....)
Titre(s) : Franco-America in the making [Texte imprimé] : the Creole nation within / Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publication : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, copyright [2018]
Description matérielle : xv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization
Lien à la collection : France overseas
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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. 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" -- Provided by
publisher
Sujet(s) : Créoles -- Louisiane (États-Unis) -- Histoire
Créoles -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Louisiane (États-Unis)
Américains d'origine française
Américains d'origine française -- Moeurs et coutumes
Indice(s) Dewey : 305.800 9730904 (23e éd.) = Groupes ethniques et nationaux - États-Unis - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780803285279. - ISBN 0803285272. - ISBN 9781496207135 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496207142 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496207159 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45561842n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45561842
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Between dream and reality in Franco-America ; Cultural institutions and French renaissance in America ; Women's social clubs and the transmission of culture ; Franco-American cultures in a new world perspective ; Ethnic identity and the Franco-American press ; Unmasking the Creole cowboy.

