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Louisiana culture from the colonial era to Katrina /

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small portion of this immense territory, this exceptional state embraces a larger-than-life history and a cultural blend unli...

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Други автори: Lowe, John, 1945-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ℗♭2008.
Серия: Southern literary studies.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Louisiana culture from the colonial era to Katrina.
Съдържание:
  • Creole cultures and national identity after Katrina / John Lowe
  • The beginnings of Louisiana literature : the French domination of 1682-1763 / Germain Bienvenu
  • Louisiana, the new Egypt : Charles Sealsfield's report from the 1820s / Alexander Ritter
  • Slavery in French Louisiana : from Gallic colony to American territory / Daniel C. Littlefield
  • Creole cultures and the process of creolization : with special attention to Louisiana / Berndt Ostendorf
  • One-drop rules : self-identity and the women in the trial of Toucoutou / Sybil Kein
  • Louisiana and the American literary tradition / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
  • The carnival voices of A confederacy of dunces / John Lowe
  • Ellen Gilchrist's false Eden : the New Orleans stories of In the land of dreamy dreams / Margaret Bauer
  • Intimacy and/in distance : the poetry of Pinkie Gordon Lane / Carolyn M. Jones
  • The kingfish as trickster hero : Huey Long in Louisiana culture / Marcia Gaudet
  • I want to die in New Orleans / Brenda Marie Osbey
  • Hollers, blue notes, and brass sounds : diverse musical and cultural influences on jazz in Louisiana / Wilfried Raussert
  • One more last chance : ritual and the jazz funeral / Brenda Marie Osbey
  • Hearing Sappho in New Orleans / Ruth Salvaggio.