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Author: Mary Alice Downie
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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A COLLECTION OF FRENCH CANADIAN FOLK TALES ADAPTED FOR THE YOUNG READER. GRADES 4-6.

Author: Edith Fowke
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Mary Alice Downie
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Cyrus MacMillan
Publisher: London : J. Lane
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: Edith Fowke
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.

Author: Edward Carruthers Woodley
Publisher: New York : B. Blom
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: Nathan Rabalais
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state’s folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana’s major ethnic groups—slavery, the grand dérangement, linguistic discrimination—resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero’s ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana’s folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state’s cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children’s books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.

Author: Michael Hornyansky
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Eight European fairy tales brought from France that have become part of French-Canadian folklore.

Author: Paul A. W. Wallace
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Category : French-Canadians
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Herbert M. Halpert Collection
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Category : Folk literature, American
Languages : en
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