Joseph Médard Carrière (1902–1970), was an award-winning Franco-Ontarian French-language scholar. He was most noted as a collector of French folklore from the Midwest of the United States. [1]
He also served as a President of the American Folklore Society. [2]
Carrière was born in Curran, Ontario in 1902. He attended Laval University, Marquette University, the Sorbonne, Paris, He graduated with a MA (1926) and Ph.D. (1932) from Harvard University. [3]
Carrière taught at Northwestern University, where in 1936 he became a naturalized American citizen. In 1942 he moved to the University of Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. [1]
From 1934 to 1936 [4] Carrière made a series of research trips to Old Mines, Missouri, where he collected folksongs and tales from 600 French-speaking families. [5] The majority of the folktales he collected, were told by a French-speaking barite miner called Joseph Ben Coleman. [1]
Based on his research, Carrière published Tales from the French folk-lore of Missouri (1937). The book rendered the tales in Creole dialect, and analyzed them by Aarne tale type [6] and motif. In 1981, the tales were republished by Rosemary Hyde Thomas, with English translations. [7]
An edition of Carrière French transcription work, which cites the storytelling of Joseph Groulx, of Tecumseh, was published in 2005. [8]
Carrière was a member of the American Folklore Society and served as the Society's president from 1946 to 1947. [2]
Carrière was awarded a Medal de L’Academie Française in 1948 [1] and he received the French title of Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 1950. [3]
Carrière's papers are kept in the archives of Université Laval. [3]
Fucilla, Joseph G; Carrière, Joseph Médard (1935). D'Annunzio abroad: a bibliographical essay. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 637029505.
Carrière, Joseph Médard (1937). Tales from the French folk-lore of Missouri Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No. 1. Evanston: Northwestern University.
Carrière, J.-M. (1937). "Indian and Creole Barboka, American Barbecue". Language. 13 (2): 148–150. doi:10.2307/408723. ISSN 0097-8507.
Fucilla, Joseph Guerin; Carrière, Joseph Médard (1938). Italian criticism of Russian literature. Columbus: H.L. Hedrick. OCLC 977099177.
Carrière, J.-M. (1939). "Creole Dialect of Missouri". American Speech. 14 (2): 109–119. doi:10.2307/451217. ISSN 0003-1283.
Hocking, Elton; Carrière, Joseph Médard (1940). Transition to reading and writing French. New York: Rinehart & Co. OCLC 19870536.
Carrière, J.-M. (1941). "The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study". The French Review. 14 (5): 410–415. ISSN 0016-111X.
Carrière, J.-M. (1941). "The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study (Continued)". The French Review. 14 (6): 510–515. ISSN 0016-111X.
Claudel, Calvin; Carrière, J.-M. (1943). "Three Tales from the French Folklore of Louisiana". The Journal of American Folklore. 56 (219): 38–44. doi:10.2307/535913. ISSN 0021-8715.
Carrière, Joseph Médard (1960). "Early Examples of the Expressions ``American Language and ``Langue Américaine". Modern Language Notes. 75 (6): 485–488. doi:10.2307/3040333. ISSN 0149-6611.
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