Louisiana Creole literature [electronic resource] : a historical study / Catharine Savage Brosman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Louisiana and its population: the historical background -- Features of early Louisiana literature and the cultural milieu -- Pere Rouquette and other early Francophone poets -- Mercier and other novelists born in the early nineteenth century -- Mid-nineteenth-century immigrant Francophone authors -- Fiction and drama by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color -- Poetry by mid-nineteenth-century free people of color -- Cable and hearn -- Late Francophone figures: De La Houssaye, Du Quesnay, Dessommes -- Chopin -- King, Stuart, and others -- Some twentieth-century Louisiana prose writers -- Louisiana Creole poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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