Voices From Louisiana
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Voices From Louisiana
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Author : Ann Brewster Dobie
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2018-03-21
Voices From Louisiana written by Ann Brewster Dobie and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Voices from Louisiana provides thoughtful, timely profiles of some of the state’s most highly regarded and popular contemporary authors. Readers interested in Louisiana’s rich literary tradition will appreciate these evocative essays on writers whose works emanate from the cultures and landscapes of the Gulf South. Ann Brewster Dobie explores the works of eleven well-known authors and concludes with a look at several emerging talents. These writers work in a broad range of genres, from coming-of-age stories and historical narratives that recover the voices of silenced and oppressed peoples, to crime thrillers set in New Iberia and New Orleans, to poetic invocations of the natural world and narratives capturing the realities of working-class lives. Whether native to the state or transplants, these writers produce works that reflect the vibrant culture that defines the intricate literary landscape of the Pelican State. Dobie highlights the careers of Darrell Bourque, James Lee Burke, Ernest Gaines, Tim Gautreaux, Shirley Ann Grau, Greg Guirard, William Joyce, Julie Kane, Tom Piazza, Martha Serpas, and James Wilcox. Newcomers also profiled include Wiley Cash, Ashley Mace Havird, Anne L. Simon, Katy Simpson Smith, Ashley Weaver, Steve Weddle, and Ken Wheaton.
Voices Of The Enslaved
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Author : Sophie White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Voices Of The Enslaved written by Sophie White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Louisiana 1682 1803
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Author : Richard Worth
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Release Date : 2005
Louisiana 1682 1803 written by Richard Worth and has been published by National Geographic Kids this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Louisiana categories.
Provides a comprehensive guide to the history of Louisiana, its diverse people, and the impact the purchase of this state from the French has had on the United States, complete with period maps and first-person accounts.
Voices Of The Enslaved
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Author : Sophie White
language : en
Publisher: Omohundro Ins
Release Date : 2021-08
Voices Of The Enslaved written by Sophie White and has been published by Omohundro Ins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with History categories.
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.
Voices From Colonial America Louisiana 1682 1803 Direct Mail Edition
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Author : Richard Worth
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2005
Voices From Colonial America Louisiana 1682 1803 Direct Mail Edition written by Richard Worth and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
Provides a comprehensive guide to the history of Louisiana, its diverse people, and the impact the purchase of this state from the French has had on the United States, complete with period maps and first-person accounts.
Chained To The Land
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Author : Lynette Ater Tanner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Chained To The Land written by Lynette Ater Tanner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
"During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The interviews conducted with the former Louisiana slaves often showed a different life from the slaves in neighboring states. Louisiana was unique among the slave-holding states because of French law and influence, as demonstrated in the standards set to govern slaves in Le Code Noir. Its history was also different from many Southern states because of the prevalence of large sugar cane as well as cotton plantations, which benefited from the frequent replenishment of rich river silt deposited by Mississippi River floods. At Frogmore Plantation, which is located in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Natchez, co-owner Lynette Tanner has spent 16 years researching and interpreting the slave narratives in order to share these stories with visitors from around the globe. The plantation offers historical re-enactments, written by Tanner, that are performed by descendants of former Natchez District slaves. In this collection, Tanner gathered interviews conducted with former slaves who lived in Louisiana at the time of the interviews as well as narratives with those who had been enslaved in Louisiana but had moved to a different state by the 1930s. Their recollections of food, housing, clothing, weddings, and funerals, as well as treatment and relationships echo memories of an era, like no other, for which America still has repercussions today"--Provided by publisher.
Voices From An Early American Convent
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Author : Marie-Madeleine Hachard
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2007
Voices From An Early American Convent written by Marie-Madeleine Hachard and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with New Orleans (La.) categories.
"In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Their convent was the first in the territory that would eventually be part of the United States. Notable for establishing a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis among the enslaved population of colonial Louisiana that contributed to the development of a large, active Afro-Catholic congregation in New Orleans. In Voices from an Early American Convent, Emily Clark extends the boundaries of early American women's history through the firsthand accounts of these remarkable French missionaries, in particular Marie Madeleine Hachard." "The heart of the volume consists of letters that Hachard wrote to her father in Rouen describing the physical and emotional ordeal of crossing the Atlantic, the startling combination of strangeness and familiarity of Louisiana, and the exhilaration of participating in a unique missionary adventure. Biographies of pioneering Ursulines, written as obituaries by the nuns who survived them, add to the missionaries' story. Clark also includes a contemporary account of the festive procession the nuns made through New Orleans in 1734 to their newly constructed convent compound. These fascinating documents reveal early American women of determination, courage, and conviction, who left behind the traditional roles of wife and mother to embrace lives of public service. From within their cloister they made an indelible impact on the lives of early colonists."--BOOK JACKET.
Louisiana Voices
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Author : Janet Barnwell
language : en
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Release Date : 1998
Louisiana Voices written by Janet Barnwell and has been published by Louisiana State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
In selections from interviews recorded at the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, the narrators of Louisiana Voices relate, in their own words, their World War II experiences. Veterans recall the dramatic events from their enlistment through basic training, combat, and occupation duty. They detail their experiences in major battles, the organization of various theaters, and their yearning for the home front. Stanley Hilton's introductions and conclusions to each chapter provide historical and analytical context for individual reminiscences.
Black Women Writers Of Louisiana
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Author : Ann B. Dobie
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-03
Black Women Writers Of Louisiana written by Ann B. Dobie and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-03 with History categories.
Louisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century they have been responsible for a flowering of literature that portrays the Black experience through poetry, fiction, plays, essays and journalism. The writers profiled here have not gone wholly unrecognized though--far from it. Some have been honored with prestigious awards and have found a readership large enough to put them at the forefront of the national literary scene. Beginning with Alice Ruth Dunbar Nelson--a fiery activist, columnist and storyteller in the late nineteenth century--the work extends to Fatima Shaik, named 2021 Louisiana Writer of the Year. Join Ann B. Dobie on this celebration of Louisiana literary talent.
A Loyal Voice From Louisiana
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Author : Anthony Paul Dostie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866*
A Loyal Voice From Louisiana written by Anthony Paul Dostie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866* with Louisiana categories.