Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana
Nathan Rabalais, "Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana"
English | ISBN: 0807174815 | 2021 | 258 pages | EPUB | 938 KB
English | ISBN: 0807174815 | 2021 | 258 pages | EPUB | 938 KB
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 experienced by Louisiana’s major ethnic groups―slavery, the
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