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The Story of French New Orleans

History of a Creole City

By: Dianne Guenin-Lelle

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The Story of French New Orleans

History of a Creole City

By: Dianne Guenin-Lelle

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City. The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the Antebellum South, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these connections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests “French” New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted “original” Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496804872

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9781496804877

The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

By: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon,Ronney Mourad,Dianne Guenin-Lelle

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The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

By: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon,Ronney Mourad,Dianne Guenin-Lelle

The first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon describes her confinement between 1695 and 1703 in various prisons, including the dreaded Bastille, and the introduction provides a comprehensive context for the historical, literary, and theological aspects of Guyon's writing.

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OUP USA

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0199841128

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9780199841127

The Story of French New Orleans

History of a Creole City

By: Dianne Guenin-Lelle

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The Story of French New Orleans

History of a Creole City

By: Dianne Guenin-Lelle

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496804872

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9781496804877

Book's by Dianne Guenin-Lelle

The Story of French New Orleans

The Story of French New Orleans

The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

The Story of French New Orleans

The Story of French New Orleans

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