Wednesday's ChildRheta Press, 1999 - 89 páginas Wednesday's Child is the winner of the Maine Chapbook Award. It is in its fourth printing. It is taught in many university courses. This is a book about a female growing up, living in, trying to leave her cultural self behind, and then returning to the Franco-American cultural group which exists in the Northeast, and more specifically in Waterville, Maine. The book addresses what has been asked of me to be present to this cultural group of people. As a girl/woman who or how have I been asked to be? What has been asked of me? The book is written from the perspective of a contemporary woman who is also a historical person. The book is also as much about the conditions in which the Franco-American group exists as well as the writing about what it means to be Franco-American and female. This is a book about how we are our historical self while we are in the present. I am more of my past--than I am of the present moment--when it is in the present moment that I now exist. What is, or is not, reflected in my reality and the reality of other Franco-Americans? This book is about the female self and her formation through the many individuals and institutions around her. Through story and cultural filters, the book illustrates family, friends, religion, health, alcoholism, superstitions, art & craft, beliefs, values, song, recipe, story, coming-of-age, generations, motherhood, language, bilingualism, denials, sexuality and what constitutes a cultural individual in a society that will not always allow that person full access or realization to who she is. But she does it anyway. |
Contenido
Introduction | 9 |
Interesting Discussions Were Had Upon Various Topics | 26 |
One In His Boot And The Other In A Hole | 39 |
Fluent And Pungent | 53 |
Far At A Time | 71 |
EpilogueNot Only By Penal Enactment 8687 | 86 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Ameritchaine Angelus anyway asked baby body language boss brother buried cancer Canuck cards Colby coming cook cool coonass Côte Robbins cultural dance dead dress echoing face farm father feel feet female Franco-American French Canadian French language fried salt pork Garden of Eden girl grave hand hear hell heritage types Hill immigrants Ivy League Jesus kids kind knew laugh lean live looking m'tante Annie Maine maman and dad maman would say manchettes married Mayflower meat memere memere's quilt mill Mon oncle mother moudgits neighborhood never November 11 nuns oncle penut play poker Quebec remember Rita river road root cellar seventeen children sewing shirt factory shoes sidewalk smell someone somewhere speak story talk teacher's pets tell things tough trees walk home Wallagrass wanted the quilts Water Street Waterville Mail Wednesday's Child West Waterville woman women XXIV
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