Creole City
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The Story Of French New Orleans
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Author : Dianne Guenin-Lelle
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-02-04
The Story Of French New Orleans written by Dianne Guenin-Lelle and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with History categories.
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.
Creole City
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Author : Nathalie Dessens
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2015-02-03
Creole City written by Nathalie Dessens and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-03 with History categories.
In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a time of rapid expansion and dizzying change. The story—rooted in the Sainte-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection—follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Exploring parts of the city’s early nineteenth-century history that have previously been neglected, Dessens examines how New Orleans came to symbolize progress, adventure, and culture to so many. Through Boze’s letters, readers witness the convergence of new Americans and old colonial populations that sparked transformations in the economic, social, and political structures, as well as the Creolization of the city. Additionally, the letters depict transatlantic experiences at a time when New Orleans was a key hub of the Atlantic trade and so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises, such as New York and Philadelphia. Dessens’s portrayal of this seminal period is innovative and crucial to understanding of the city’s rich record and its larger role in American history.
Imagining The Creole City
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Author : Rien Fertel
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2014-11-17
Imagining The Creole City written by Rien Fertel and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-17 with Social Science categories.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output —histories and novels, poetry and plays—that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers. Rien Fertel argues that Charles Gayarré's English-language histories of Louisiana, which emphasized the state's dual connection to America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole print culture predicated on Louisiana's exceptionalism. The writings of authors like Grace King, Adrien Rouquette, and Alfred Mercier consciously fostered an image of Louisiana as a particular social space, and of themselves as the true inheritors of its history and culture. In turn, the forging of this white Creole identity created a close-knit community of cosmopolitan Creole elites, who reviewed each other's books, attended the same salons, crusaded against the popular fiction of George Washington Cable, and worked together to preserve the French language in local and state governmental institutions. Together they reimagined the definition of "Creole" and used it as a marker of status and power. By the end of this group's era of cultural prominence, Creole exceptionalism had become a cornerstone in the myth of Louisiana in general and of New Orleans in particular. In defining themselves, the authors in the white Creole print community also fashioned a literary identity that resonates even today.
Creole City
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Author : Edward Larocque Tinker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Creole City written by Edward Larocque Tinker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with New Orleans (La.) categories.
Imagining The Creole City
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Author : Rien T. Fertel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Imagining The Creole City written by Rien T. Fertel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Creoles categories.
This dissertation traces the development, growth, and eventual fall of a white Creole intellectual and literary community in New Orleans, beginning in the 1820s and continuing for a century thereafter. In histories and novels, poetry and prose, the stage and the press, white Creole New Orleanians -- those who traced their parentage back to the city's colonial era -- advocated both an intimate connection to France and a desire to be considered citizens of the United States of America. In print, they consciously fostered, mythologized, and promoted the idea that their very bifurcated nature made them inheritors of a singularly special place, possessors of an exceptional history, and keepers of utterly unique bloodlines. In effect, this closely-knit circle of Creole writers, like other Creole literary communities scattered across the Atlantic World, imbued the word Creole as a descriptive identity marker that symbolized social and cultural power.
The Haitian Creole Language
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Author : Arthur K. Spears
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-06-22
The Haitian Creole Language written by Arthur K. Spears and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-22 with Education categories.
The Haitian Creole Language is the first book dealing with the central role of Creole in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, especially in the United States. Dispelling myths about Creole, with discussions of Haitian and Haitian Creole history, it provides a foundation for educators, service providers, policy makers, social scientists, and language and literature scholars to understand Creole in its historical, social, political, educational, and economic developmental contexts.
The Creoles Of Louisiana
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Author : George Washington Cable
language : en
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Release Date : 1884
The Creoles Of Louisiana written by George Washington Cable and has been published by New York, C. Scribner's sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Creoles categories.
Old New Orleans The Creole City
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Author : Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Old New Orleans The Creole City written by Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with New Orleans (La.) categories.
Traces the colorful and stormy history of New Orleans from the events leading to its founding in 1718 to its acquisition by the United States in 1803.
The Accidental City
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Author : Lawrence N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-30
The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with History categories.
This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world. Lawrence N. Powell, a decades-long resident and observer of New Orleans, gives us the full sweep of the city’s history from its founding through Louisiana statehood in 1812. We see the Crescent City evolve from a French village, to an African market town, to a Spanish fortress, and finally to an Anglo-American center of trade and commerce. We hear and feel the mix of peoples, religions, and languages from four continents that make the place electric—and always on the verge of unraveling. The Accidental City is the story of land-jobbing schemes, stock market crashes, and nonstop squabbles over status, power, and position, with enough rogues, smugglers, and self-fashioners to fill a picaresque novel. Powell’s tale underscores the fluidity and contingency of the past, revealing a place where people made their own history. This is a city, and a history, marked by challenges and perpetual shifts in shape and direction, like the sinuous river on which it is perched.
Rome And The Colonial City
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Author : Sofia Greaves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Rome And The Colonial City written by Sofia Greaves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.