Becoming Cajun, becoming American : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke /
From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture...
| Основен автор: | Hebert-Leiter, Maria. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Серия: |
Southern literary studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=292752 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Becoming Cajun, becoming American. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: from Acadian to American: the paradox of Cajun American identity
- Longfellow's Evangeline: the origins of American myth and Cajun memory
- How to become American: the irony of George Washington Cable's Bonaventure
- The awakening awakened: Cajun identity and female sexuality in the fiction of Kate Chopin
- Our Cajun America: twentieth-century revisions of Cajun representation
- The journey home: James Lee Burke's parable of Cajun assimilation
- Embracing difference: Cajuns take the next step in Cajun representation
- Conclusion: local pride, global connections: twenty-first-century Cajuns.