Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000124374004
Louisiana Folklore Miscellany
Anonim
Louisiana Folklore Miscellany
Louisiana Folklore Miscellany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Louisiana Folklore Miscellany book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
Keagan LeJeune
Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496847369
Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana by Keagan LeJeune Pdf
One writer's odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home
Ignatius Rising
René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy
Author : René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807130591
Ignatius Rising by René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy Pdf
The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs. Frank yet sympathetic, Ignatius Rising deftly describes a life that is dark, tragic, bizarre, and amazing -- but luminous with the gift of laughter, a life not unlike those of Toole's beloved characters, now loved the world over.
Louisiana History
Florence M. Jumonville
Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313076794
Louisiana History by Florence M. Jumonville Pdf
From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.
Louisiana Folklife
Nicholas R. Spitzer
Author : Nicholas R. Spitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : IND:39000006079318
Louisiana Folklife by Nicholas R. Spitzer Pdf
Folklore in the United States and Canada
Patricia Sawin,Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Author : Patricia Sawin,Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780253052919
Folklore in the United States and Canada by Patricia Sawin,Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt Pdf
Drawing on archives and oral histories, a detailed account of graduate folklore programs in American and Canadian academic institutions. To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.
An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends
Frank de Caro
Author : Frank de Caro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317476986
An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends by Frank de Caro Pdf
For folklorists, students, as well as general readers, this is the most comprehensive survey of American folktales and legends currently available. It offers an amazing variety of American legend and lore - everything from Appalachian Jack tales, African American folklore, riddles, trickster tales, tall tales, tales of the supernatural, legends of crime and criminals, tales of women, and even urban legends.The anthology is divided into three main sections - Native American and Hawaiian Narratives, Folktales, and Legends - and within each section the individual stories explore the myriad narrative traditions and genres from various geographic regions of the United States. Each section and tale genre is introduced and placed in its narrative context by noted folklorist Frank de Caro. Tale type and motif indexes complete the work.
Cinderella in America
William Bernard McCarthy
Author : William Bernard McCarthy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604731613
Cinderella in America by William Bernard McCarthy Pdf
For years many folklorists have denied the possibility of a truly American folk or fairy tale. They have argued that the tales found in the United States are watered-down derivatives of European fare. With this gathering, William Bernard McCarthy compiles evidence strongly to the contrary. Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales represents these tales as they have been told in the United States from Revolutionary days until the present. To capture this richness, tales are grouped in chapters that represent regional and ethnic groups, including Iberian, French, German, British, Irish, other European, African American, and Native American. These tales are drawn from published collections, journals, and archives, and from fieldwork by McCarthy and his colleagues. Created along the nationalist model of the Brothers Grimm yet as diverse in its voices and themes as the nation it represents, Cinderella in America shows these tales truly merit the designation American. William Bernard McCarthy is professor emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books are The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition and Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers .
Cajun Breakdown
Ryan A. Brasseaux
Author : Ryan A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195343069
Cajun Breakdown by Ryan A. Brasseaux Pdf
Social music -- Early commercial era -- A heterogeneous tradition -- Becoming the folk -- Cajun swing era -- The modern Cajun sound -- Cajun national anthem -- A new mental world.
Swapping Stories
Lindahl, Carl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison
Author : Lindahl, Carl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1604736755
Swapping Stories by Lindahl, Carl,Maida Owens,C. Renée Harvison Pdf
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.
Southern Heritage on Display
Celeste Ray
Author : Celeste Ray
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817312275
Southern Heritage on Display by Celeste Ray Pdf
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals—parades, cook-offs, kinship homecomings, church assemblies, music spectacles, and material culture exhibitions—that affirm other identities. From the Appalachian uplands to the Mississippi Delta, from Kentucky bluegrass to Carolina piedmont, southerners celebrate in festivals that showcase their diverse cultural backgrounds and their mythic beliefs about themselves. The ten essays of this cohesive, interdisciplinary collection present event-centered research from various fields of study—anthropology, geography, history, and literature—to establish a rich, complex picture of the stereotypically “Solid South.” Topics include the Mardi Gras Indian song cycle as a means of expressing African-American identity in New Orleans; powwow performances and Native American traditions in southeast North Carolina; religious healings in southern Appalachian communities; Mexican Independence Day festivals in central Florida; and, in eastern Tennessee, bonding ceremonies of melungeons who share Indian, Scots Irish, Mediterranean, and African ancestry. Seen together, these public heritage displays reveal a rich “creole” of cultures that have always been a part of southern life and that continue to affirm a flourishing regionalism. This book will be valuable to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, American studies, and southern history; academic and public libraries; and general readers interested in the American South. It contributes a vibrant, colorful layer of understanding to the continuously emerging picture of complexity in this region historically depicted by simple stereotypes.
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Marcia G. Gaudet,Marcia Gaudet,James C. McDonald
Author : Marcia G. Gaudet,Marcia Gaudet,James C. McDonald
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604736427
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco by Marcia G. Gaudet,Marcia Gaudet,James C. McDonald Pdf
Writer's Craft. James C. McDonald, a professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is the editor of The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers.
Cajun and Creole Folktales
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496806567
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.
Folklore Recycled
Frank de Caro
Author : Frank de Caro
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496806338
Folklore Recycled by Frank de Caro Pdf
Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore—usually thought of in its historical social context as “oral tradition”—is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in their fiction or poetry, taking plots, as an example, from a folktale. Visual artists may concentrate on depicting folk figures or events, like a ritual or a ceremony. Tourism officials may promote a place through advertising its traditional ways. Folklore may play a role in intellectual conceptualizations, as when nationalists use folklore to promote symbolic unity. Folklore Recycled discusses the larger issue of folklore being recycled into non-folk contexts, and proceeds to look at a number of instances of repurposing. Colson Whitehead's novel John Henry Days is a literary text that recycles folklore but does so in a manner which examines a number of other uses of the American folk figure John Henry. The nineteenth-century members of the Louisiana branch of the American Folklore Society and the author Lyle Saxon in the twentieth century used African American folklore to establish personal connections to the world of the southern plantation and buttress their own social status. The writer Lafcadio Hearn wrote about folklore to strengthen his insider credentials wherever he lived. Photographers in Louisiana leaned on folklife to solidify local identity and to promote government programs and industry. Promoters of “unorthodox” theories about history have used folklore as historical document. Americans in Mexico took an interest in folklore for acculturation, for tourism promotion, for interior decoration, and for political ends. All of the examples throughout the book demonstrate the durability and continued relevance of folklore in every context it appears.
American Folklore
Jan Harold Brunvand
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578787
American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority