Becoming Cajun, becoming American : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.

Author/creator Hebert-Leiter, Maria
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionx, 200 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSouthern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
LCCN 2008050688
ISBN9780807134351 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080713435X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS173.A26 H43 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold