Hebert-Leiter, Maria.

Becoming Cajun, becoming American the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / [electronic resource] : Maria Hebert-Leiter. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009. - x, 200 p. - Southern literary studies . - Southern literary studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.

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.


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American literature--History and criticism.
Cajuns in literature.
Acadians in literature.


Electronic books.

PS173.A26 / H43 2009eb