Author: Athénée louisianais (New Orleans, La.)
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Category : French Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Rien Fertel
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158240
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output -- histories and novels, poetry and plays -- that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers. Rien Fertel argues that Charles Gayarré's English-language histories of Louisiana, which emphasized the state's dual connection to America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole print culture predicated on Louisiana's exceptionalism. The writings of authors like Grace King, Adrien Rouquette, and Alfred Mercier consciously fostered an image of Louisiana as a particular social space, and of themselves as the true inheritors of its history and culture. In turn, the forging of this white Creole identity created a close-knit community of cosmopolitan Creole elites, who reviewed each other's books, attended the same salons, crusaded against the popular fiction of George Washington Cable, and worked together to preserve the French language in local and state governmental institutions. Together they reimagined the definition of "Creole" and used it as a marker of status and power. By the end of this group's era of cultural prominence, Creole exceptionalism had become a cornerstone in the myth of Louisiana in general and of New Orleans in particular. In defining themselves, the authors in the white Creole print community also fashioned a literary identity that resonates even today.

Author: Modern Language Association of America
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Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

Author: Alcée Fortier
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Warren Academy of Sciences, Warren, Pa
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Warren Academy of Sciences
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

Author: Tristan Coignard
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839473594
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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German-Americans represent the largest self-declared ancestry group in the United States of America. The period from the 200th anniversary celebration of Germantown's founding in 1883 to the end of the First World War was an age of intense turmoil within the ranks of German-American communities. These decades were marked by a massive political and cultural realignment as well as major contributions to the (self-)definition of German-Americanness. Historians and sociolinguists with backgrounds in German or American studies offer a fresh look at a critical period in the history of German-American communities.

Author: Arkansas Historical Association
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Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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