Becoming Cajun, becoming American [electronic resource] : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.
Material type: TextSeries: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.Description: x, 200 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:- PS173.A26 H43 2009
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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.
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