| Description |
xxviii, 369 pages ; 20 cm. |
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Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page xxv-xxviii). |
| Summary |
In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stores. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Babou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish exquisitely from a sort of Southern novel of manners. Chopin was deeply influenced by the work of French and American realists. Many of the stories in Bayou Folk concern young people seeking good marriage partners and better lives for themselves. Expanding this theme into a search for balance and harmony, personal fulfillment, and cultural richness, A Night in Acadie is, Bernard Koloski notes in his Introduction, "one of America's best nineteenth-century collections of short stories -- and one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic fiction". With a gentle, knowing gaze, Chopin evoked the distant world of Louisiana plantations and 'Cadian balls, and anticipated the thoroughly modern multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, and sexually charged world of our century. |
| Contents |
Bayou folk: No-account Creole -- In and out of old Natchitoches -- In Sabine -- Very fine fiddle -- Beyond the Bayou -- Old Aunt Peggy -- Return of Alcibiade -- Rude awakening -- Benitous' slave -- Desiree's baby -- Turkey hunt -- Madame Celestin's divorce -- Love on the Bon-Dieu -- Loka -- Boulot and Boulotte -- For Marse Chouchoute -- Visit to Avoyelles -- Wizard from Gettysburg -- Ma'ame Pelagie -- At the 'Cadian Ball -- La Belle Zoraide -- Gentleman of Bayou Teche -- Lady of Bayou St. John -- Night in Acadie: Night in Acadie -- Athenaise -- After the winter -- Polydore -- Regret -- Matter of prejudice -- Caline -- Dresden lady in dixie -- Neg Creol -- Lillies -- Azelie -- Mammouche -- Sentimental soul -- Dead men's shoes -- At Cheniere Caminada -- Odalie misses mass -- Cavanelle -- Tante Cat'rinette -- Respectable woman -- Ripe figs -- Ozeme's holiday. |
| Subject |
Bayous -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
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Women -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
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Dialect literature, American.
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Louisiana -- Fiction.
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Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Koloski, Bernard, 1937-
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Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
Night in Acadie.
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| Added Title |
Bayou folk
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Night in Acadie.
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| ISBN |
0140436812 |
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