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Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory
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 th...
Kaleidophonic Modernity
What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds a bridge between visual culture and sound studies. Kaleidophonic Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover, the celebrated concert pianist and salonnière Nina de Villard at the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to tele...
Rumors of Revolution
In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. In Rumors of Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely overlooked in scholarship to date.
Cascade Hunger
Eli and Dag survived a monster. Two monsters, in fact. A year later, though, they’re still trying to settle into a ‘regular’ life. Dag is working hard in school. It’s not going great. Eli is working hard at…being a better Eli. He’s eating right. Most of the time. He’s thinking about exercise in healthy ways. He’s ok with how he looks, as long as he doesn’t walk past any mirrors. He goes out some nights, though. He goes across the lake, back to Bragg, where the monsters were. And he’s not sure why. He’s not sure what keeps calling him back. When a woman is brutally murdered and an eyewitness claims to have seen the killer transform into a mysterious light, Eli and Dag are forced to set aside their own problems and face a difficult truth: there is another monster out there. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be anybody else who can stop it from killing again. But not all monsters are the same, as Eli and Dag discover. And the most dangerous monster might be the one who can give you what you’ve always wanted.
Fred Forest's Utopia
“France's most famous unknown artist,” the innovative media provocateur Fred Forest, precursor of Eduardo Kac, Jodi, the Yes Men, RT Mark, and the Guerilla Girls. The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small blank space in Le Monde, called it 150 cm2 of Newspaper (150 cm2 de papier journal), and invited readers to fill in the space with their own work and mail their efforts to him. In 1977, he satirized speculation in both the art and real estate markets by offering the first parcel of officially registered “artistic square meters” of undeveloped rural land for sale at an art auction. Although praised...
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters explore the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.
Le français autour de nous
Aux États-Unis, le français est littéralement partout : du croissant ou du macaron que l’on déguste dans un café ou bistrot en passant par les noms de famille et de lieux à consonance francophone, il imprègne l’histoire des habitants, leurs valeurs, leurs familles, leurs quartiers et leurs communautés. Ce livre, dédié à la langue française et à la culture francophone en Amérique, nous raconte l’histoire des Franco-Américains, descendants des premiers explorateurs français et des immigrants canadiens-français, mais également celle des francophones arrivés récemment sur cette rive de l’Atlantique. L’ouvrage s’adresse à chacun de nous, quelles que soient nos origines, car la francophonie américaine est liée aux nombreuses langues et cultures ayant façonné les États-Unis et avec lesquelles elle s’entremêle parfois.
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana
In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state’s folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas ...
Écrire pour gouverner, écrire pour contester
Les rapports entre politique et littérature dans le contexte de l’Amérique du Nord francophone sont riches et féconds. Autour de la question « Écrire pour gouverner, écrire pour contester », ce recueil réunit des praticiens, des artistes et des médiateurs culturels, jumelés à des universitaires et des spécialistes de la culture. Ensemble, ils partagent leurs expériences et leurs analyses. Plusieurs collaborateurs proposent des études qui prolongent leurs réflexions respectives. Celles-ci donneront au lectorat un regard neuf sur les formes d’engagement littéraire et politique, les usages de la littérature à des fins politiques et identitaires, l’écriture de mémoires ...
El Imperio de la Virtud
Frontcover -- Índice -- Lista de ilustraciones -- Introducción -- Parte I: Hacia Grandeza mexicana: una epistemología del 'centro' -- Introducción: "centro y corazón desta gran bola"--1. El paradigma retórico del enkōmion poleōs -- 2. El paradigma geopolítico de la 'teoría de las cinco zonas' -- Parte II: Grandeza mexicana y la polémica por la posesión de la Nueva España -- 3. La retórica de la valentía: una 'polémica épica' en una ciudad desmilitarizada -- Los poemas épicos pro-criollos como casos forenses -- Grandeza mexicana y la transgresión del enkōmion poleōs -- 4. La geopolítica de la templanza: la ciencia del imperio español transatlántico -- Entre Sepúlveda ...
