Louisiana Creoles

Author : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0295749490

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Louisiana Creole Peoplehood by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford,Darryl Barthé,Andrew J. Jolivétte Pdf

Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity. With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people who have been negated and written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.

Author : Frank W. Sweet
Publisher : Backintyme
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0939479133

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The Destruction of the Louisiana Creoles by Frank W. Sweet Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Jolivétte,Paula Gunn Allen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739157350

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Louisiana Creoles by Andrew J. Jolivétte,Paula Gunn Allen Pdf

Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew JolivZtte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana. By including the voices of contemporary Creole organizations, preservationists, and grassroots organizers, JolivZtte offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the ways in which history has impacted the ability of Creoles to self-define their own community in political, social, and legal contexts. This book raises important questions concerning the process of cultural formation and the politics of ethnic categories for multiracial communities in the United States. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the themes found throughout Louisiana Creoles are especially relevant for students of sociology and those interested in identity issues.

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Creoles
ISBN : PSU:000000820219

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The Creoles of Louisiana by George Washington Cable Pdf

Author : John laFleur II,Brian Costello
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783730911464

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Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Creole French & "Cajun" Language Tell Their Own Story by John laFleur II,Brian Costello Pdf

Adapted from a larger work,"Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Colonial French, Creole & Cajun Languages Tell Their Story" reveals Louisiana's remarkable Old World French & metis language traditions which continue to enchant America and scholars in all the world! But, along with the fame Cajunization has brought the State, historical distortion and misinformation fostered by mass-marketing and media conditioning myopia have suppressed and misrepresented Louisiana's historic French languages, cultural history and people as if uniquely Acadian in origin. But, Louisiana's diverse multi-ethnic French languages, cultural traditions and people existed long before the arrival of the Acadians, who themselves were to become its beneficiaries! Author-scholars John laFleur & Brian Costello, native-speakers respectively of Louisiana's Colonial Creole French & her sister tongue of Louisiana Afro-Creole with Dr. Ina Fandrich, provide a non-commercially scripted, first-time study of both the history and ethnological origins of Louisiana's diverse French-speaking peoples of the French Triangle and present the unvarnished results of their investigation, experience along with the evidence of modern and historical scholarship as seen through the franco and creolophonic traditions of Louisiana. A must read for all Louisiana cultural and linguistic afficionados!

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628469530

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Louisiana Creole Literature by Catharine Savage Brosman Pdf

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 Creolehad 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 Literatureexamines 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496806567

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Cajun and Creole Folktales by Anonim Pdf

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 : Ina Fandrich,John laFleur II,Brian Costelle
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783730909980

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Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions by Ina Fandrich,John laFleur II,Brian Costelle Pdf

For the last four decades, Louisiana has promoted its 500 year old French Colonial Creole culture as "Cajun" implying that this culture had its origin in Acadian Canada. Nothing could be farthest from the truth! During the racially turbulent 1960's Jim Crow era when black Americans were literally struggling for their civil and human rights, the historic nomenclature for Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic CREOLE culture would change to a weird stereotyping of only WHITE French-speakers as "Cajun" and only BLACK French-speakers as "Creole" -regardless of the facts of history, genealogy, geography and genalogical reality. Today, the meaning of "Cajun" has once again changed into something which seeks to encompass a so-called "regional identity" which again, ignores its own past and historical meaning. What's really going on? In "Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions: Facts vs Fiction Before and Since Cajunization" authors John LaFleur II and Brian Costello, both life-long Louisiana French Colonial Creole speakers and cultural experts, along with Dr. Ina Fandrich of New Orleans, have decided to provide meaningful answers to questions long plaguing and confusing both the international and their local public. Their research, personal knowledge and answers are provided in this historic first which traces the pre-Acadian roots of Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic or Creole people, their foodways and their several languages still spoken in Louisiana today. The answers are often humorous, but poignantly factual and well-documented. This beautiful hardcover book is furnished in vintage black and white and contemporary full-color photography which grounds facts, places and people to a forgotten reality and culture which has been re-labeled and mass-marketed as "Cajun" for reasons both shameful and comical to educated and right-minded people alike.

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner's sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Creoles
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022705123

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The Creoles of Louisiana by George Washington Cable Pdf

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780739118962

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Louisiana Creoles by Andrew Jolivétte Pdf

Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew Joliv tte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana. By including the voices of contemporary Creole organizations, preservationists, and grassroots organizers, Joliv tte offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the ways in which history has impacted the ability of Creoles to self-define their own community in political, social, and legal contexts. This book raises important questions concerning the process of cultural formation and the politics of ethnic categories for multiracial communities in the United States. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the themes found throughout Louisiana Creoles are especially relevant for students of sociology and those interested in identity issues.

Author : Nathan Rabalais
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807175576

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Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana by Nathan Rabalais Pdf

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 : Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628468182

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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country by Carl A. Brasseaux,Claude F. Oubre,Keith P. Fontenot Pdf

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society—white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.

Author : James H. Dormon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499173

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Creoles of Color of the Gulf South by James H. Dormon Pdf

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 : Martin Munro,Celia Britton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781386095

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American Creoles by Martin Munro,Celia Britton Pdf

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 : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617039102

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Louisiana Creole Literature by Catharine Savage Brosman Pdf

A broad overview of the tremendous achievement of Louisiana writers in the Creole tradition