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Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study

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Language
English
Publishers
University Press of Mississippi (17 Jun. 2024)
Weight
0.41 KG
Publication Date
03/05/2024
ISBN-10
1496852133
Pages
278 pages
ISBN-13
9781496852137
Dimensions
15.24 x 1.78 x 22.86 cm
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9781496852137
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Catharine Savage Brosman (Author)
Catharine Savage Brosman, who was born in Colorado, went to high school and college in Texas (Rice University). She lived subsequently in Florida, Virginia, New Orleans (four decades), and now has returned to Houston. She is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield (England). She is the author or editor of numerous books dealing with nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and authors such as André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Roy, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus. She has published, in addition, many scholarly articles and read papers in the U.S. and abroad. Her creative publications comprise two volumes of creative prose (personal essays), three chapbooks, and seven collections of poetry: Watering (University of Georgia Press, 1972), Journeying from Canyon de Chelly (1990), Passages (1996), Places in Mind (2000), The Muscled Truce (2003), Range of Light (2007), all from LSU Press, and Breakwater (Mercer University Press, 2009). A chapbook, Trees in a Park, will come out at Chicory Bloom Press in 2010, and another collection, Under the Pergola, will be published by LSU Press in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Critical Quarterly and Quarterly Review(England), the South Carolina Review, the Southwest Review, New England Review, and First Things. French translations of her poems have come out in the Nouvelle Revue Française, Europe, and other French magazines. She is married and has one married daughter. Her interests beyond literature include music (especially opera and ballet), camping, and traveling.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the flourishing period during which the term Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana.

The study consists in part of literary history and biography. When available and appropriate, each discussion—arranged chronologically—provides pertinent personal information on authors, as well as publishing facts.

Readers will find also summaries and evaluation of key texts, some virtually unknown, others of difficult access. Brosman illuminates the biographies and works of Kate Chopin, Lafcadio Hearn, George Washington Cable, Grace King, and Adolphe Duhart, among others.

In addition, she challenges views that appear to be skewed regarding canon formation. The book places emphasis on poetry and fiction, reaching from early nineteenth-century writing through the twentieth century to selected works by poets still writing in the early twenty-first century.

A few plays are treated also, especially by Victor Séjour. Louisiana Creole Literature examines at length the writings of important Francophone figures, and certain Anglophone novelists likewise receive extended treatment.

Since much of nineteenth-century Louisiana literature was transnational, the book considers Creole-based works which appeared in Paris as well as those published locally. .

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