La Survivance
Appearance
La Survivanceis an expression used byFrench Canadiansdenoting the phlegmatic survival offrancophoneculture, typically in the face of Canadian anglophone or Anglo-American hegemony.[1]It was used frequently inQuebec,especially before theQuiet Revolutionof the 1960s, but also found expression among the culturally dispossessed francophone mill workers of northernNew England,from the 19th century on.[2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^Ramsay Cook (2005).The Ideology of Survival in Watching Quebec: Selected Essays.McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 163–.ISBN978-0-7735-2919-9.
- ^Ronald Arthur Petrin (1 January 1990).French Canadians in Massachusetts Politics, 1885-1915: Ethnicity and Political Pragmatism.Balch Institute Press. pp. 18–.ISBN978-0-944190-07-4.