Becoming Cajun, becoming American
Subtitle: the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke
By: Maria Hebert-Leiter.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807134351
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Cajuns in literature; Acadians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: from Acadian to American: the paradox of Cajun American identity; title: Longfellow's Evangeline: the origins of American myth and Cajun memory; title: How to become American: the irony of George Washington Cable's Bonaventure; title: The awakening awakened: Cajun identity and female sexuality in the fiction of Kate Chopin; title: Our cajun America: twentieth-century revisions of Cajun representation; title: The journey home: James Lee Burke's parable of Cajun assimilation; title: Embracing difference: cajuns take the next step in Cajun representation; title: Conclusion: local pride, global connections: twenty-first-century Cajuns.