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THE NEZAT AND ALLIED FAMILIES 1630 - 2019
Pierre Nezat was born 1736 in Layrac, France. As a teenager, he learned the trade of his father, a carpenter, and at the age of 19 volunteered for the account of a colonist. He left Layrac and France for the West Indies on the traces of Jean Roy, Jean Hebert and Guillaume Barre...He settled in Louisiana and met Magdelaine Provost, Frenchwoman born in Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Both are the founders of a very great family. The book, about the Nezat and allied families, includes the history, portraits of descendants as well as a family tree with index from 1630 to May 2007. Allied families are, amon others: Roy, Barre, Hebert, Chachere, Begnaud, Robin, Mouton, Thibodeaux, Brocato, Devillier, Friloux, Prejean, Broussard, Arceneaux, Carlile, Anderson, Granger, Latiolais, Comeau, Chiasson, Stelly, Quebedeaux, Carriere, Zeringue, Patin, Sonnier, Martin, Lowe, Peery, Dupuy, Provost, Smith, Holland, Spainhour, Marcel, Trahan, Sullivan, Stout, Vidrine, Dejean, Brown and Wallace
Masterless Mistresses
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans and educated women and girls in literacy, numeracy and the Catholic faith. By incorporating their story into the history of early America, this work exposes the limits of the republican model of national unity.
Who Needs Books?
Are books on the way to extinction or just adapting to our changing world?
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
Playwright, novelist, polyglot, pianist, trickster Tomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture on the importance of multilingualism.
Métis Families: General index
The word métis was originally used to identify children of French Canadian and Indian parents. It is now widely used to describe any of the descendants of Indian and non-Indian parents.
Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book
Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever justified? Hill illustrates his ideas with anecdotes and lists names of Canadian writers who faced censorship challenges in the twenty-first century, inviting conversation between those on opposite sides of these contentious issues. All who are interested in literature, freedom of expression, and human rights will enjoy reading Hill's provocative essay.
Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women's Literature
This book explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. It argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchy and unsettling fixed notions of home. The idea of home explored in this book relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects in constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations. Fantasy is seen to operate in the corpus of this book as a literary mode, as defined by Rosemary Jackson. Literary fantasy offe...
National Plots
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott Clarke) propose new views and understandings of Canadian history and individual relationships to it. Critical evaluation of these works sheds light on the complexity of these depictions. The contributors in National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada critically examine texts with subject matter ranging from George Vancouver’s west coast explorations to the eradication of t...
Leaving Other People Alone
Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction's unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.
