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" Becoming Cajun, becoming American : "
Maria Hebert-Leiter.
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BL
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1000034
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b754404
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Hebert-Leiter, Maria.
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Becoming Cajun, becoming American : : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke /\ Maria Hebert-Leiter.
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2009.
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Southern literary studies
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1 online resource (x, 200 pages)
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0807136131
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080713435X
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9780807134351
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index.
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| Contents
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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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From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Combining a study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history in light of recent social theories, she offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by Acadians--who over time came to be known as Cajuns--during the nineteenth and twentiet.
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Acadians in literature.
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American literature-- History and criticism.
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Cajuns in literature.
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Acadians in literature.
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American literature.
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Cajuns in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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810.9/529410763
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PS173.A26H43 2009eb
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