Brosman, Catharine Savage, 1934-
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.
• Louisiana and its population: the historical background — Features of early Louisiana literature and the cultural milieu — Pere Rouquette and other early Francophone poets — Mercier and other novelists born in the early nineteenth century — Mid-nineteenth-century immigrant Francophone authors — Fiction and drama by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color — Poetry by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color — Cable and hearn — Late Francophone figures: De La Houssaye, Du Quesnay, Dessommes — Chopin — King, Stuart, and others — Some twentieth-century Louisiana prose writers — Louisiana Creole poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
• Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres–in both French and English–connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the flourishing period during which the term Creole had broad and contested cultural reference in Louisiana. — from publisher’s website.

Subjects:

• French American literature — Louisiana — History and criticism.
• Creole literature — Louisiana — History and criticism.
• Creoles — Louisiana — History.

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