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Gerstäcker's Louisiana : fiction and travel sketches from antebellum times through Reconstruction

Title
Gerstäcker's Louisiana : fiction and travel sketches from antebellum times through Reconstruction / edited and translated by Irene S. Di Maio.
Author
Gerstäcker, Friedrich, 1816-1872.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Di Maio, Irene Stocksieker.
Description
xi, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"A global traveler and adventurer, the German author Friedrich Gerstacker (1816-1872) first arrived in Louisiana in March 1838, paddling the waterways leading from the wilds of the northwestern part of the state near Shreveport south to cosmopolitan New Orleans." "Gerstacker's aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works - including his fiction - sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstacker's impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-328).
Contents
The Antebellum period : travel sketches -- Roving expedition west of the Mississippi -- Louisiana sojourn and journey home -- New Orleans -- In Bayou Sara -- The houseboy and the cow -- A drill -- The Ferry Hotel in Pointe Coupee -- Mr. Mix -- The Antebellum period : fiction -- The slave -- The purchased hangman -- The planter -- Jazede -- The daughter of the Riccarees : a portrait from Louisiana -- In the Red River -- The mouth of the Mississippi -- New Orleans -- Ashore -- The Reconstruction period : travel sketches -- To Louisiana -- New Orleans -- The Reconstruction period : fiction -- New Orleans -- The meeting.
ISBN
0807131466 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005035303
  • 9780807131466
OCLC
  • OCM62593432
  • SCSB-5271550
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries