Louisiana culture from the colonial era to Katrina / edited by John Lowe.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small portion of this immense territory, this exceptional state embraces a larger-than-life history and a cultural blend unli...
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505 | 0 | |a Creole cultures and national identity after Katrina / John Lowe -- The beginnings of Louisiana literature : the French domination of 1682-1763 / Germain Bienvenu -- Louisiana, the new Egypt : Charles Sealsfield's report from the 1820s / Alexander Ritter -- Slavery in French Louisiana : from Gallic colony to American territory / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Creole cultures and the process of creolization : with special attention to Louisiana / Berndt Ostendorf -- One-drop rules : self-identity and the women in the trial of Toucoutou / Sybil Kein -- Louisiana and the American literary tradition / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- The carnival voices of A confederacy of dunces / John Lowe -- Ellen Gilchrist's false Eden : the New Orleans stories of In the land of dreamy dreams / Margaret Bauer -- Intimacy and/in distance : the poetry of Pinkie Gordon Lane / Carolyn M. Jones -- The kingfish as trickster hero : Huey Long in Louisiana culture / Marcia Gaudet -- I want to die in New Orleans / Brenda Marie Osbey -- Hollers, blue notes, and brass sounds : diverse musical and cultural influences on jazz in Louisiana / Wilfried Raussert -- One more last chance : ritual and the jazz funeral / Brenda Marie Osbey -- Hearing Sappho in New Orleans / Ruth Salvaggio. | |
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