- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 200 p.)
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Becoming Cajun, becoming American (Online)
- Southern literary studies.
- Alternative Title
- Becoming Cajun, becoming American (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2008050688
- OCLC
- ssj0000335074
- Author
Hebert-Leiter, Maria.
- Title
Becoming Cajun, becoming American [electronic resource] : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.
- Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.
- Series
Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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