02055nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10333739 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 081120s2009 lau sb s001 0 eng 2008050688 9780807134351 (cloth : alk. paper) 080713435X (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646835757 PS173.A26 H43 2009eb Hebert-Leiter, Maria. Becoming Cajun, becoming American [electronic resource] : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009. x, 200 p. Southern literary studies Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index. Introduction: from Acadian to American: the paradox of Cajun American identity -- Longfellow's Evangeline: the origins of American myth and Cajun memory -- How to become American: the irony of George Washington Cable's Bonaventure -- The awakening awakened: Cajun identity and female sexuality in the fiction of Kate Chopin -- Our Cajun America: twentieth-century revisions of Cajun representation -- The journey home: James Lee Burke's parable of Cajun assimilation -- Embracing difference: Cajuns take the next step in Cajun representation -- Conclusion: local pride, global connections: twenty-first-century Cajuns. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. American literature History and criticism. Cajuns in literature. Acadians in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Southern literary studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10333739 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 67531 67531