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Some of the best scholarly examinations of Louisiana's important literary figures.
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From its earliest poet, Julian Poydras, to its current Nobel Prize nominee, Ernest Gaines, the state of Louisiana has inspired unique varieties of literature. Yet, it is only within the last half-century that the topic of "Louisiana Literature has emerged as a serious subject for scholarly investigation. Discounted for so long, Louisiana's early French-language writers have gradually emerged from the fringes of literary acceptance, while the state's more popular English-language writers, such as George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, and Tennessee Williams, have been re-scrutinized according to the ever-changing contexts of the world. At the same time that Louisiana literature was first receiving academic recognition, entirely new literary movements began in the state, including the Baton Rouge Agrarians of the early to mid-twentieth century, the Cajun poets of the Acadian Renaissance during the 1970s-1980s, and even Anne Rice's hugely popular vampire tales of the last three decades.
The Center for Louisiana Studies is proud to announce publication of the most recent volume in The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Volume XVII, Louisiana Literature and Literary Figures. Mathé Allain edits this collection, which brings together the very best examinations of Louisiana's rich and multifaceted literary heritage. Some of the authors whose works are discussed include Alfred Mercier, Sidonie de la Houssaye, Lafcadio Hearn, Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Lyle Saxon, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Robert Penn Warren, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, William Faulkner, Shirley Ann Grau, John William Corrington, and Ellen Gilchrist. This volume is sure to be a standard reference work for anyone interested in Louisiana literary criticism or the more general evolution of Louisiana literature. Book Excerpts CONTENTS
The French Literature of Louisiana by Mathé Allain Louisiana's Earliest Poet: Julien Poydras by Edward Larocque Tinker French Literature in Colonial Louisiana by Charles E. O'Neill Introduction to The Festival of the Young Corn or The Heroism of Poucha-Houmma by Mathé Allain Introduction to Tante Cydette by George Dessommes by George Reinecke Forgotten People, Forgotten Literature: The Case of Creole Authors of Color by Frans C. Amelinckx Love, Death, and Faith in the New Orleans Poets of Color by Alfred J. Guillaume, Jr. Alfred Mercier, French Novelist of New Orleans by George Reinecke Sidonie de la Houssaye's Pouponne et Balthazar: The Other Side of the Escalin by May G. Waggoner S. de la Houssaye's Quadroon Tetralogy: "Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle Orleans" by J. John Perret Louis Placide Canonge (1822-1893): Un Américain de France, du sud de la Louisiane" by Bernard Lavoie New Departures in Cajun Poetry: Zachary Richard's Voyage de nuit by Janis L. Pallister A French Literary Renaissance in Louisiana: Cultural Reflections by David Barry Feu de Savane: A Literary Renaissance in French Louisiana by Mathé Allain and Barry Jean Ancelet The Birth of Cajun Poetry: An Analysis of Cris sur la bayou: naissance d'une poésie acadienne en Louisiane by Dianne Guenin-Lelle PART II ENGLISH LITERATURE At Odds: Race and Gender in Grace King's Short Fiction by Linda S. Coleman Lee Arthur: The Sardou of Shreveport: An Introduction by Paul T. Nolan Mollie Moore Davis: A Literary Life by Patricia Brady Race and Gender in the Early Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Violet Harrington Bryan Shaping Contradictions: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Black Creole Experience by Gloria T. Hull Cultural Translator: Lafcadio Hearn by Hephzibah Roskelly Lyle Saxon's Struggle with Children of Strangers by James W. Thomas Introduction: The Collected Works of Ada Jack Carver by Mary Dell Fletcher Ruth McEnery Stuart: The Innocent Grotesque by Ethel C. Simpson Ruth McEnery Stuart: A Reassessment by Dorothy H. Brown Kate Chopin's Ironic Vision by James E. Rocks Kate Chopin and The Creole Country by Elmo Howell Doubly Dispossessed: Kate Chopin's Women of Color by Catherine Lundie Making Places: Kate Chopin and the Art of Fiction by Barbara C. Ewell Cable's The Grandissimes: A Literary Pioneer Confronts the Southern Tradition by Alfred Bendixen George W. Cable, Novelist and Reformer by Arlin Turner The Division of the Heart: Cable's The Grandissimes by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. George Washington Cable's Creoles: Art and Reform in The Grandissimes by Elmo Howell Rereading Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw Arna Bontemps: The Louisiana Heritage by Nicholas Canaday The Brooding Air of the Past: William Faulkner by W. Kenneth Holditch Francis Parkinson Keyes: Mining the Mother Lode by Jane F. Bonin Lillian Hellman: Standing in the Minefields by Milly S. Barranger South Toward Freedom: Tennessee Williams by W. Kenneth Holditch The Baton Rouge Agrarians by Thomas W. Cutrer The Concept of Demagoguery: Huey Long and His Literary Critics by Robert E. Snyder Hamilton Basso and the World View from Pompey's Head by James E. Rocks "New People in the Old Museum of New Orleans": Ellen Gilchrist, Sheila Bosworth, and Nancy Lemann by J. Randal Woodland No Cross, No Crown: The Poetry of John William Corrington by Jo LeCoeur The New Orleans Crime Fiction of John W. and Joyce Corrington by Frank W. Shelton Shirley Ann Grau's Wise Fictions by Linda Wagner-Martin Shirley Ann Grau's "Simple Direct Truths of Myth-making" by Nancy B. Johnson Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Bette H. Roberts Miss Jane and I by Ernest J. Gaines Bayonne or the Yoknapatawpha of Ernest Gaines by Michel Fabre "The Sound of My People Book Reviews
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