Becoming Cajun, becoming American [electronic resource] : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.
By: Hebert-Leiter, Maria.
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BookSeries: Southern literary studies: Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009Description: x, 200 p.Subject(s): American literature -- History and criticism | Cajuns in literature | Acadians in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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