Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana /

""Folk Figures of French and Creole Louisiana" offers an in-depth analysis of Louisiana's French and Creole folklore, examining how figures of folklore arose from the state's remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rabalais, Nathan J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tales.
Manners and customs.
Folklore.
Creoles > Louisiana > Folklore.
Cajuns > Folklore.
Tales > Louisiana.
Folklore > Louisiana.
Louisiana.
Louisiana > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : origins and evolution of Louisiana's French and Creole folklore tradition
  • Lapin and other animal tricksters
  • The master thief, a human trickster
  • The many faces of Jean le Sot
  • Un sacre conte : anticlerical humor in Louisiana folklore
  • Bayou belles : the fairy tales of French and Creole Louisiana
  • Mystery, magic, and curses
  • Epilogue : contemporary uses of folklore figures.

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