French North America in the Shadows of Conquest

ISBN-13: 9780367557416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 306 str.

Ryan André Brasseaux

Opis

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America.

Spis treści

Prologue, Introduction: Doomed to Suffer Long, Chapter 1: The Tocquevillian Gaze, Chapter 2: The Cult of Evangeline, Chapter 3: Frenchy’s War, Chapter 4: Nous and les autres, Chapter 5: French is Our Black Colour, Chapter 6: Cultural Avengers, Cultural Fatigue, Epilogue: Social Networks, Cultural Trauma, and Memory, Bibliography, Acknowledgements

O autorze

Ryan André Brasseaux is dean of Davenport College and lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. Brasseaux specializes in vernacular American music, French North American history, and public humanities. He is the author of Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music.