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Author : Elista Istre
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UIUC:30112125752631
"... examines past and present Creole culture through its history, food ways, oral traditions, music, and continued efforts to preserve Creole traditions"--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604736083
The first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana
Author : James H. Dormon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499173
Eight essays explore the social and historical foundations of mixed-race people in Louisiana and along the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico, specific features of Gulf Creole culture, and ethnic and identity developments during the 20th century. The cultural features include Mardi Gras, zydeco music, and the place of the language in the larger New World French Creole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner's sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Creoles
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022705123
Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807130362
In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities. Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a multifaceted society -- one that, unlike other American melting pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation. A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples created south Louisiana's famous vibrant culture, interacting with African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and encountering influences from southern plantation life and the Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white; the Cajun people; and the state's largest concentration of French speakers -- the Houma tribe. A product of thirty years' research, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic roots of a region long popular as an international tourist attraction.
Author : Sybil Kein
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807126012
Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature. Creole is a project that both defines and celebrates this ethnic identity. In fifteen essays, writers intimately involved with their subject explore the vibrant yet understudied culture of the Creole people across time—their language, literature, religion, art, food, music, folklore, professions, customs, and social barriers.
Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Creoles
ISBN : OCLC:10909825
Author : Sybil Kein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0807125326
Essays on virtually every aspect of Creole history & culture in Louisiana.
Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Creoles
ISBN : OCLC:729774176
Author : Nathan Rabalais
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Albert Valdman,Kevin James Rottet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781604734041
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane .
Author : George W. (George Washington) Cable
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1314862278
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Martin Munro,Celia Britton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781386095
This book examines the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, considering figures as diverse as Barack Obama, Frantz Fanon, Miles Davis, James Brown, Edouard Glissant, William Faulkner, Maryse Condé and Lafcadio Hearn.
Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:427111701