• Media type: Book
  • Title: Becoming Cajun, becoming American : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
  • Contains: Introduction: from Acadian to American: the paradox of Cajun American identityLongfellow'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.
  • Contributor: Hebert-Leiter, Maria [Author]
  • Published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009
  • Published in: Southern literary studies
  • Extent: X, 200 S.; 23 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 080713435X; 9780807134351
  • RVK notation: HR 1540 : Der Süden
    HR 1702 : Völker
  • Keywords: USA > Literatur > Cajun
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index
  • Description: 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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