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Author : J. J. Reneaux
Publisher : august house
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0874832837
A collection of twenty-six traditional Cajun tales, including animal stories, fairy tales, ghost stories, and humorous tales.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Cajuns
ISBN : 1455601772
Presents six folktales from southern Louisiana, featuring Lapin the rabbit and Bouki, a coyote or wolf, and some of their animal friends.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496806567
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.
Author : Alcée Fortier
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 1935754106
Author : Carl Lindahl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496800824
Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews—whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.
Author : Linda Watts
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781646930005
Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level. This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study. Coverage includes: Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore and more.
Author : Nathan Rabalais
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807175576
In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state’s folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana’s major ethnic groups—slavery, the grand dérangement, linguistic discrimination—resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero’s ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana’s folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state’s cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children’s books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.
Author : Arthur Roy Williams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781434304674
Lapin the rabbit tricks Bouki the donkey out of his honey. Includes a glossary and pronunciation guide to ten Creole words or expressions.
Author : Beth Bartleson Zarian
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810848163
Whether two teachers are covering the same topic in separate classes, or designing a thematic unit with the school librarian, this handy guide to nearly 800 award-winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature.
Author : Mathilde Köstler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110772715
How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.
Author : Terri Hoover Dunham
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627535984
Around the world Santa Claus has many names. But in a deep, swampy bayou of Louisiana, he's known as Papa Noël. In such a hot and humid place, there can be no sleds or reindeer, so Papa Noël rides the river in a boat that's pulled by eight alligators, with a snowy white one named Nicollette in the lead. On this particular Christmas Eve, it's so foggy on the river that even Nicollette's magical glowing-green eyes may not be enough to guide Papa Noël. The alligators are tired, grumpy and bruised from banging into cypress trees, and Papa is desperate to get all the gifts to the little children. Well, "quicker than a snake shimmies down the river," the clever Cajun people come up with a solution that saves the day. A colorfully inventive Christmas tale, Papa Noël is a lesson in fast thinking, as well as a witty introduction to a part of America that's rich in folklore and legend.
Author : Alcée Fortier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : UVA:X000272897
Author : J. J. Reneaux
Publisher : august house
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0874834120
When sassy old Dog tricks Alligator, king of the swamps, it starts a feud that continues to this day in the Louisiana bayous.
Author : Robert D. San Souci,
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1455614734
How foolish could six Cajuns on the bayou possibly be? Down in Louisiana bayou country, six friends--Jules, Jacques, Jean, Ti-Paul, Philippe, and Pierre-love to go out fishing on their pirogues. But these fellows are very foolish indeed. It isn't long before one silly misunderstanding after another results in a hilarious and ridiculous Cajun-flavored folktale that will delight readers young and old. An alternate version of the traditional Seven Foolish Fishermen, this story contains Cajun words and phrases, expressive and bright illustrations, and irresistible good humor.
Author : Larry Boudreaux
Publisher : Boudreaux Cajun General Store
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Cajuns
ISBN : 0967600227
A fun book designed to give host all information to give a Cajun Theme Party.