A PARAITRE le 20 novembre 2013FRANCOPHONIA: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program 336 pages, $19.95 US
ISBN: 1492928011 ISBN-13: 978-1492928010 Release date : November 20, 2013
POST-FRANCOPHILE:A Stories from the Professional French Masters Program Edited by Ritt Deitz"Exactly the type of text we need to really show how relevant studies in French can be." -John P. Greene Professor of Classical and Modern Languages University of Louisville
I
opened Post-Francophile this evening after dinner thinking I would just
read an article before putting my kids to bed, but I couldn’t put it down and
ended up reading it cover to cover. With the current discussion about the crisis
in foreign language education in the United States and all of the obstacles that
French educators are facing, it was refreshing and uplifting to read
these stories that clearly show that the study of French is alive and
well. -Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University
LA COLONIE, ou l'invasion québécoise Ritt DeitzParu le 13 novembre 2010
Incidence
Editions is a not-for-profit literary label based in Madison, Wisconsin. Incidence co-publishes literary nonfiction,
criticism, fiction, theatrical texts and screenplays having to do with French
Studies or the French-speaking world. We
specialize in two areas: critical
writing that questions existing and traditional models of French Studies, and French-language
fiction that tests the aesthetic boundaries governed by larger French-language
literary publishers.
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Récits, 120 pages, $9.95 US
ISBN: 978-1481034029 ISBN-10: 1481034022 Paru le 22 mars 2013
Un
rêveur comme les autres vous invite à vivre l’eau, la neige, la corruption
politique, la violence, les lunettes, les animaux domestiques et moins
domestiques, les pistes cyclables, et les fantômes romanciers, dans une
Amérique francophone qui n’en est une que par accident, et seulement pour les
peu nombreux qui la choisissent.
Portrait légèrement satirique du lieu et du sommeil, le recueil de
récits de Ritt Deitz est tout à fait contemporain—à moins que, lorsqu’on dit contemporain, on parle du monde réel.
Professeur, compositeur,
musicien, critique et blogueur, Ritt
Deitz est directeur exécutif du PFMP (Professional French Masters Program)
à l'Université du Wisconsin à Madison, où il donne des cours en communication
professionnelle, méthodes de recherche, et culture et société du Québec. Aux Editions Incidence (label littéraire
bilingue), il a déjà publié La Colonie (2010),
comédie musicale de langue française sur l'invasion du Wisconsin par les
Québécois, et Post-Francophile :
Stories from the Professional French Masters Program (2010), anthologie
d’essais écrits par d’anciens élèves du PFMP.
La suite de ce dernier, Francophonia,
paraîtra aux Editions Incidence cet automne.
POST-FRANCOPHILE
Stories from the Professional French Masters Program
Americans have studied French for centuries. Some of them become teachers. Others become professors, teaching and writing about the language and its attendant literatures and cultures. Some become translators.
Thousands of French majors graduate from American colleges and universities each year, but most of them will not become teachers, translators or academics. How many will find fulfilling ways to use their fluency in French, as professionals? How many will find those hidden geographies where French is a daily feature of the landscape? How many will simply give up, letting their French rust away into their personal past?
Ritt Deitz, who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional French Masters Program, has assembled writers who tackle these questions and others, “Post-Francophiles” who make up that large and diverse community of adult Americans committed to using French in ways that deepen both their careers and their lives as a whole. They are well past simply “loving” the language. Their stories suggest that, behind the shimmering pathway to sophistication that French long seemed to represent, there lies a set of useful professional tools.
LA COLONIE
Las d'avoir trop attendu, alors que les voisins du sud-ouest
languissaient sous une dictature anglo-saxonne depuis plus de deux
siècles, le Québec libère le peuple du Wisconsin de ses douleurs. Les
Canadiens anglais et les Français de France sont chassés du territoire,
et La Loi 101-2-3 est ratifiée, donnant enfin aux Wisconsiniens les
moyens de s'épanouir, en tant que peuple. Les conditions parfaites
pour une histoire d'amour.
"Comme je le prévoyais, j'ai rapidement traversé LA COLONIE. Quel drôle d'impression de voir notre culture, notre langage, et surtout notre relation avec le 'pays-mère', analysés avec autant de justesse par un Américain, rien de moins!"
-Jules Saulnier, réalisateur Montréal
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