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From John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and Martha Ostenso's 'Wild Geese' to Louis Hémon's 'Maria Chapdelaine', some of the most famous works of American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian literature belong to the genre of the farm novel. In this volume, Florian Freitag provides the first history of the genre in North America from its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century to its apogee in French Canada around the middle of the 20th. Through surveys and selected detailed analyses of a large number of farm novels written in French and English, Freitag examines how North American farm novels draw on the history of farming in 19th-century North America as well as on the national self-conceptions of the United States, English Canada, and French Canada, portraying farmers as national icons and the farm as a symbolic space of the American, English-Canadian, and French-Canadian nations. Turning away from traditional readings of farm novels within the frameworks of regionalism and pastoralism, Freitag takes a comparative North American look at a genre that helped to spatialize North American national dreams. Florian Freitag is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Farm life in literature. --- American fiction --- Canadian fiction --- French-Canadian fiction --- History and criticism. --- 1845-1945. --- English Canada. --- Farm Novel. --- French Canada. --- Genre. --- Nation. --- North America. --- United States.
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Quels sont les processus de transformation d’une forme symbolique ? Comment s’importe-t-elle et s’intègre-t-elle dans des traditions et des rituels qui lui sont étrangers ? Pierre Déléage nous livre ici une belle étude de cas. Son enquête, à la croisée de l’anthropologie et de l’histoire, a pour terrain les relations qui s’établirent, au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, entre des missionnaires catholiques et les Micmacs, groupe amérindien peuplant les côtes atlantiques de l’actuelle frontière séparant le Canada des États-Unis. Chez les Micmacs, la croix était un signe d’alliance diplomatique, guerrier et chamanique. Confrontés à cette situation, les missionnaires français usent d’un syncrétisme pédagogique pour propager la croix chrétienne. Quant aux " hiéroglyphes" micmacs, méthode d’inscription tout à fait exceptionnelle, ils se constituent à l’intersection des traditions pictographiques autochtones et de l’écriture alphabétique apportée par les missions. Cet ouvrage démontre la force d’innovation produite par les interactions entre des systèmes symboliques différents. Il décrit et explique comment l’hétérogénéité culturelle construit l’efficace des objets et des rituels, assure leur propagation et aboutit à l’invention de traditions nouvelles pour un groupe humain donné à un moment de son histoire
Missionaries --- Symbolic anthropology --- North America --- Crosses --- New France --- Micmac Indians --- Micmac language --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Religious adherents --- Micmaensi language --- Micmak language --- Mihemak language --- Mikmaque language --- Mi'kmaq language --- Algonquian languages --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Calvaries --- Crucifixes --- Roods --- Signs and symbols --- Crucifixion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Writing --- History --- North America - New France --- Mi'kmaq --- Mi'kmaw language --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Writing. --- History. --- Historical anthropology --- French Canada --- Indians --- 17th-18th centuries
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