Elizabeth M. Scott (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054391
- eISBN:
- 9780813053127
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054391.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This collection offers a new understanding of communities of French heritage in the New World, drawing on archaeological and historical evidence from both colonial and post-Conquest settings. It ...
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This collection offers a new understanding of communities of French heritage in the New World, drawing on archaeological and historical evidence from both colonial and post-Conquest settings. It counters the prevailing but mistaken notion that the French role in New World histories was confined largely to Québec and New Orleans and lasted only through the French and Indian War. Some chapters in the volume reveal new insights into French colonial communities, while others concern the post-Conquest Francophone communities that thrived under British, Spanish, or American control, long after France relinquished its colonies in the New World. The authors in this collection engage in a dialogue about what it meant to be ethnic French or a French descendant, Métis, Native American, enslaved, or a free person of color in French areas of North America, the Caribbean, and South America from the late 1600s until the late 1800s. The authors combine archaeological remains (from artifacts to food remains to cultural landscapes) with a rich body of historical records to help reveal the roots of present-day New World societies. This volume makes clear that, along with Spanish, British, and early American colonial influences, French colonists and their descendant communities played an important role in New World histories, and continue to do so.Less
This collection offers a new understanding of communities of French heritage in the New World, drawing on archaeological and historical evidence from both colonial and post-Conquest settings. It counters the prevailing but mistaken notion that the French role in New World histories was confined largely to Québec and New Orleans and lasted only through the French and Indian War. Some chapters in the volume reveal new insights into French colonial communities, while others concern the post-Conquest Francophone communities that thrived under British, Spanish, or American control, long after France relinquished its colonies in the New World. The authors in this collection engage in a dialogue about what it meant to be ethnic French or a French descendant, Métis, Native American, enslaved, or a free person of color in French areas of North America, the Caribbean, and South America from the late 1600s until the late 1800s. The authors combine archaeological remains (from artifacts to food remains to cultural landscapes) with a rich body of historical records to help reveal the roots of present-day New World societies. This volume makes clear that, along with Spanish, British, and early American colonial influences, French colonists and their descendant communities played an important role in New World histories, and continue to do so.
Anne-Laure Rigeade
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781942954422
- eISBN:
- 9781786944368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781942954422.003.0031
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In this paper, I intend to analyze three French biographies and biofictions starring Virginia Woolf: Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf (2009), Christine Duhon's Une Année amoureuse de Virginia Woolf ...
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In this paper, I intend to analyze three French biographies and biofictions starring Virginia Woolf: Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf (2009), Christine Duhon's Une Année amoureuse de Virginia Woolf (1990), and Anne-James Chaton's elle regarde passer les gens (2016). My purpose is to show that these hybrid texts inherit of Woolf in two ways: first, because they propose a certain form of biography, a certain mix of fact and fiction, responding to Woolf's own creation, from Orlando to Roger Fry. Then, these texts inherit of an author's figure, an author who becomes more than a character, an icon.Less
In this paper, I intend to analyze three French biographies and biofictions starring Virginia Woolf: Viviane Forrester's Virginia Woolf (2009), Christine Duhon's Une Année amoureuse de Virginia Woolf (1990), and Anne-James Chaton's elle regarde passer les gens (2016). My purpose is to show that these hybrid texts inherit of Woolf in two ways: first, because they propose a certain form of biography, a certain mix of fact and fiction, responding to Woolf's own creation, from Orlando to Roger Fry. Then, these texts inherit of an author's figure, an author who becomes more than a character, an icon.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226514246
- eISBN:
- 9780226514239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226514239.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
North of Sangamo and at the end of Edwards' Trace, most of the French character of Peoria quickly dissolved into the soil after Captain Craig's fires died out in the fall of 1812. The villagers did ...
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North of Sangamo and at the end of Edwards' Trace, most of the French character of Peoria quickly dissolved into the soil after Captain Craig's fires died out in the fall of 1812. The villagers did not return to the ruins, although a few families resettled down river on the opposite shore. Animals moved into the abandoned Fort Clark, and for a short time, Peoria was a very quiet place. After a few years of silence, the Americans began to visit, following the trace from the south. At first, they came to hunt or fish, but soon they began building their log houses. By the mid-1820s, Peoria—the last stand for the old ways of the eighteenth century—had become an American place. In less than a generation, the residents of Peoria began looking for the archaeological traces of its French heritage. This chapter describes excavations and artifacts from Peoria.Less
North of Sangamo and at the end of Edwards' Trace, most of the French character of Peoria quickly dissolved into the soil after Captain Craig's fires died out in the fall of 1812. The villagers did not return to the ruins, although a few families resettled down river on the opposite shore. Animals moved into the abandoned Fort Clark, and for a short time, Peoria was a very quiet place. After a few years of silence, the Americans began to visit, following the trace from the south. At first, they came to hunt or fish, but soon they began building their log houses. By the mid-1820s, Peoria—the last stand for the old ways of the eighteenth century—had become an American place. In less than a generation, the residents of Peoria began looking for the archaeological traces of its French heritage. This chapter describes excavations and artifacts from Peoria.
