AFRO-CREOLE POETRY IN FRENCH FROM LOUISIANA'S RADICAL CIVIL WAR-ERA NEWSPAPERS

ISBN 10: 0917860799 / ISBN 13: 9780917860799

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AFRO-CREOLE POETRY IN FRENCH FROM LOUISIANA'S RADICAL CIVIL WAR-ERA NEWSPAPERS
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0917860799
• ISBN 13: 9780917860799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Collected here for the first time, seventy-nine poems published in the Civil War–era Afro-Creole New Orleans newspapers L’Union and La Tribune—most unavailable anywhere but in archives—bring to life a close-knit, politically progressive French-speaking community of artists and intellectuals whose cultural and legal legacies were monumental. The original French poems appear here alongside Clint Bruce’s sensitive English translations, mindful of meaning, meter, and sound.

A comprehensive introduction, biographies of the poets, and extensive annotations immerse readers in Civil War–era Louisiana. In his research for the volume, Bruce unearthed crucial issues of La Tribune long thought lost and discovered the extent of a poetic hoax undetected for nearly 150 years.

Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection

 

About the Author

Clint Bruce holds the Canada Research Chair in Acadian and Transnational Studies at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.