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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Creole Cultures and National Identity after Katrina; PART 1 INDIAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, AFRICAN, GERMAN: THE EARLY ORIGINS OF A UNIQUE CULTURE; The Beginnings of Louisiana Literature: The French Domination of 1682-1763; Louisiana-the New Egypt: Charles Sealsfield's Report from the 1820's; Slavery in French Louisiana: From Gallic Colony to American Territory; PART 2 THE CREOLE CONTROVERSY; Creole Cultures and the Process of Creolization: With Special Attention to Louisiana; One-Drop Rules: Self-Identity and the Women in the Trial of Toucoutou
- PART 3 LOUISIANA LITERATURE: THE TRADITION AND THREE CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Louisiana and the American Literary Tradition; The Carnival Voices of A Confederacy of Dunces; Ellen Gilchrist's False Eden: The New Orleans Stories of In the Land of Dreamy Dreams; Intimacy and/in Distance: The Poetry of Pinkie Gordon Lane; PART 4 LOUISIANA MYTHOLOGIES, FROM THE KINGFISH TO THE PECULIAR FASCINATION WITH THE DEAD; The Kingfish as Trickster Hero: Huey Long in Louisiana Culture; I Want to Die in New Orleans; PART 5 MUSIC THAT SOOTHES THE SOUL
- Hollers, Blue Notes, and Brass Sounds: Diverse Musical and Cultural Influences on Jazz in Louisiana One More Last Chance: Ritual and the Jazz Funeral; CONCLUSION: Hearing Sappho in New Orleans; Contributors; Index;