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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism. Cajuns in literature. Acadians in literature.