Louisiana Creole literature : a historical study

Louisiana Creole literature : a historical study / Catharine Savage Brosman.

Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres--in both French and English--connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centur...

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Main Author: Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Subjects:
French American literature > Louisiana > History and criticism.
Creole literature > Louisiana > History and criticism.
Creoles > Louisiana > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Creole literature
Creoles
French American literature
Louisiana
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Louisiana and its population: the historical background
  • Features of early Louisiana literature and the cultural milieu
  • Pere Rouquette and other early Francophone poets
  • Mercier and other novelists born in the early nineteenth century
  • Mid-nineteenth-century immigrant Francophone authors
  • Fiction and drama by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color
  • Poetry by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color
  • Cable and hearn
  • Late Francophone figures: De La Houssaye, Du Quesnay, Dessommes
  • Chopin
  • King, Stuart, and others
  • Some twentieth-century Louisiana prose writers
  • Louisiana Creole poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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