Becoming Cajun, becoming American the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke /
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Southern literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.