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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 'origin

Author

Dianne Guenin-Lelle

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496804884

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Humanities