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Becoming Cajun, becoming American the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke

Title
Becoming Cajun, becoming American [electronic resource] : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.
Author
Hebert-Leiter, Maria.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.

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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
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Cajuns in literature
  • Acadians in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
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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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Available onsite at NYPL
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