Cajun and Creole folktales : the French oral tradition of South Louisiana / collected and annotated by Barry Jean Ancelet.
Ancelet, Barry Jean.
1994
GR111.F73 C35 1994 (Mapit)
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Title Cajun and Creole folktales : the French oral tradition of South Louisiana / collected and annotated by Barry Jean Ancelet.
ISBN 0878057099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1994.
Language English
Language Note English and French.
Description lxxii, 224 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Call Number GR111.F73 C35 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 398/.089410763
Summary This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. It is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings - the Cajun French and its English translation - along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana has remained vigorously and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of the best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales - all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It proves to be even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.
Note Originally published: New York : Garland, 1993, in series: World folktale library ; v. 1.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and indexes.
Added Author Ancelet, Barry Jean.
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Foreword by Carl Lindahl
Preface by Barry Jean Ancelet
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Language
Storytellers
Tales: Contes d'animaux/Animal tales
Contes merveilleux/Magic tales
Farces/Jokes
Menteries et contes forts/Lies and tall tales
Contes de Pascal/Pascal stories
Contes legendaires/Legendary tales
Histoires vraies/Historical tales
Bibliography
Index of tale types
Index of motifs
Index of narrators.

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