Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory / / Mathilde Köstler.
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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 538 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Short History of Cajun Culture and Cajun Literature
- 3 Framing Collective Memory and Literature: Some Theoretical Observations
- 4 Memory as Awakening: Cris sur le bayou and the Emergence of Cajun Poetry
- 5 Tim Gautreaux: Navigating between Memory and Forgetting
- 6 Jeanne Castille’s Nostalgic Vision of Cajun Culture
- 7 Migrating Literature: Zachary Richard’s Cajun Tales
- 8 Ron Thibodeaux’s Hell or High Water: How Cajuns Counter the Rita and Ike Amnesia
- 9 Darrell Bourque’s Poetics of Broken Memory
- 10 Kirby Jambon’s China Baroque Poetry
- 11 Conclusion and Outlook
- 12 Works Cite
- Index