The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition
The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition

Author: Dudley J. Le Blanc

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780983600886

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THE TRUE STORY OF THE ACADIANS, 90th ANNIVERSARY EDITION by award-winning author M. M. Le Blanc, revising and enhancing the original 1927 book by her grandfather, renowned Acadian historian Louisiana Senator Dudley J. Le Blanc, the first non-fiction book about the Acadian Deportation by a direct descendent of Acadian survivors in both maternal and paternal lines. Original cover art from 1927 edition, complete Bibliography, charts and tables of deported Acadians, ship passenger lists, 6 Appendices including historical details of how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "Evangeline," updated sources, new Endnotes, and more! 272 pages. Softcover. Published by BizEntine Press.

Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory
Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory

Author: Mathilde Köstler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-12-19

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 3110772779

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How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest
French North America in the Shadows of Conquest

Author: Ryan André Brasseaux

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1000281868

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French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America. Modern French North America was born from the process of coming to terms with the idea of conquest after the fall of New France. The memory of conquest still haunts those 20 million Francophones who call North America home. The book re-examines the contours of North American history by emphasizing alliances between Acadians, Cajuns, and Québécois and French Canadians in their attempt to present a unified challenge against the threat of assimilation, linguistic extinction, and Anglophone hegemony. It explores cultural trauma narratives and the social networks Francophones constructed and shows how North American history looks radically different from their perspective. This book presents a missing chapter in the annals of linguistic and ethnic differences on a continent defined, in part, by its histories of dispossession. It will be of interest to scholars and students of American and Canadian history, particularly those interested in French North America, as well as ethnic and cultural studies, comparative history, the American South, and migration.

Acadian Redemption
Acadian Redemption

Author: Warren A. Perrin

Publisher: Andrepont Pub

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780976892700

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Acadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book explains his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had, for years, wanted to lay claim to the Acadians' rich lands. The book discusses the repercussions of Beausoleil's life that resulted in the evolution of the Acadian culture into what is now called the Cajun culture. More than 50 vintage photographs, maps, and documents are included.

Acadian to Cajun
Acadian to Cajun

Author: Carl A. Brasseaux

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781617031113

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"This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier
Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier

Author: Bettye B. Burkhalter

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1477287221

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History, Romance, & Destiny... Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier is an exquisite saga of Dr. Jean (John) Baptiste Elzar Burels lifelong desire to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the beckoning new America. With his naval surgeon license in one hand and his medical chest in the other, he followed Marquis de Lafayette to Colonial America during the Revolutionary War. During the war he fell passionately in love and married a beautiful Acadian French woman in Philadelphia. After the war they made plans to return to his home at Ollioules, France. Homeward bound, the bourgeois doctor boarded the ship in Philadelphia with his new bride and their few belongings. There on deck he was unexpectedly forced to choose between his beloved homeland and family in France and his wife with child. Disembarking the ship with grave disappointment, John knowingly forfeited his inheritance as sole heir. Struggling to survive in Philadelphia, oftentimes John sat quietly admiring the beautiful woman who owned his heart as he secretly yearned for his prominent family and lifestyle on the Mediterranean Coast of France. Standing on the threshold of the newly independent America, the young doctor decided to take his wife and infant son and pioneer down the Great Wagon Road into the raw frontier of South Carolina. Believing he would build a new and prosperous life, he settled at Goshen Hill between the Tyger and Enoree Rivers within the lawless backcountry of South Carolina. Fighting the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and the recurring restlessness to return to France, John and his family carved out a simple life. Although disappointed at times, within the walls of his log home the enduring love and warmth of his wife and six children transcended adversity and hardships of the outside world. The heartwarming story is filled with humanity as John faced his inevitable destiny. The first novel in the trilogy closes with Dr. Burels widow standing helplessly in her front yard watching the wagon train take her spirited children and grandchildren west in search of richer land and prosperity. It was dj vu!