4 Memory as Awakening: Cris sur le bayou and the Emergence of Cajun Poetry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. 2 A Short History of Cajun Culture and Cajun Literature 18
6. 3 Framing Collective Memory and Literature: Some Theoretical Observations 44
7. 4 Memory as Awakening: Cris sur le bayou and the Emergence of Cajun Poetry 91
8. 5 Tim Gautreaux: Navigating between Memory and Forgetting 153
9. 6 Jeanne Castille’s Nostalgic Vision of Cajun Culture 212
10. 7 Migrating Literature: Zachary Richard’s Cajun Tales 262
11. 8 Ron Thibodeaux’s Hell or High Water: How Cajuns Counter the Rita and Ike Amnesia 306
12. 9 Darrell Bourque’s Poetics of Broken Memory 354
13. 10 Kirby Jambon’s China Baroque Poetry 409
14. 11 Conclusion and Outlook 453
15. 12 Works Cite 467
16. Index 515