Résonance

About

Résonance is an editor-reviewed, online literary journal whose goal is to encourage, showcase, and disseminate creative works by and/or about the Franco-American communities of the United States.

This site on Digital Commons serves to archive past issues of the journal. To view the most recent issue, please visit our new website. Writers and artists can submit work via Submittable: find submission instructions and link here.

We look forward to working closely with you to expand the body of creative work about the Franco-Americans of the U.S., and to grow the audience and market for Franco-American literature.

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Current Issue

Volume 3Résonance

Published April 20, 2021

introduction

interview

  1. Erica Vermette, Kevin Cyr (Author)

    On the Periphery: An Interview with Artist Kevin Cyr

    An interview by Erica Vermette of the Maine-based artist Kevin Cyr, who is known for his paintings of vehicles, as well as his sculptural works depicting unique shelters and transitory homes. Cyr discusses his Acadian heritage, cross-border (US/Canada) identity, and the meaning of "home" through the lens of his work.

fiction

  1. Denise Larson (Author)

    The House at 12 Washington Street

    The House at 12 Washington Street presents the two sides of the French Canadian immigrant story. In 1940, a female census taker meets the Jardiniers, an extended family with bonds stretching back to Canada. However, the younger generations have an eye on their future in the American industrial city, not the farm back home. It is the story of men, women, and youth transitioning from rural Canada to the urban United States, an experience shared by a million individuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  2. Denis Ledoux (Author)

    Coming Down

    A young Canadien man get yanked out of his life he thought would be his and is thrust into an uncertain future.

creative_non-fiction

  1. Jérôme Pilette (Author)

    Ma Famille en Louisiane

    Quelques jours de mon voyage à vélo décrivant mon passage en Louisianne en quittant New Orleans, passant par New Iberia, Abbeville, Pecan Island.

  3. Denis Ledoux (Author)

    L'arriète-plan to my childhood memoir, Growing Up French

    This introduction to the memoir, Growing Up French/ A Maine Franco-American Memoir, is an overview of industrialization in Lewiston, Maine, and of Franco participation. It prepares a story set between 1947 and 1960 of the author's childhood and focuses on history, acculturation and assimilation of his family and of Franco-America.

poetry

  2. Nathan Wendte (Author)

    Grènn èk bourjon

    This poem is born of the author's experiences as member of a revitalization movement for a language to which he is not ancestrally connected. Because time spent with a language is such an intimate relationship, one cannot expect to remain unchanged by the encounter. But absent the more common pairing of language and ethnicity, what is the nature of the connection that remains?

review