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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hebert-Leiter, Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.