Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke

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BeCOming Cajun, Becoming American Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Series Editor BeCOminG Cajun, BeCOminG AmeriCan The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke Maria Hebert-Leiter Louisiana State University Press   Baton Rouge Published by Louisiana State University Press Copyright © 2009 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing Designer: Laura Roubique Gleason Typeface: Minion Pro Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hebert-Leiter, Maria. Becoming Cajun, becoming American : the Acadian in American literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke / Maria Hebert-Leiter.    p. cm. ­ — (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8071-3435-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. American literature—History and criticism. 2. Cajuns in literature. 3. Acadians in literature. I. Title. PS173.A26H43 2009 810.9'529410763—dc22  2008050688 Chapter 4 contains material published in an earlier version as “A Breed Between: Racial Mediation in the Fiction of Ernest Gaines” in MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 31. 2 (Summer 2006). It is reprinted here with the permission of MELUS. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the­ Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library­ Resources. ∞ To my Hebert family ...