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- Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens: l'histoire racontée aux jeunes
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- 2013
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
summary
Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. In its original English, the book proved a perfect package, comprehensible to junior-high and high-school students, while appealing to and informing adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these remarkable people and their predecessors. It is now available for the first time translated into French.
The narrative follows the Cajuns' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Upheaval)--an episode regarded by many historians as an instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Up to one-half of the Acadian population died from disease, starvation, exposure, or outright violence in the expulsion. Nearly three thousand survivors journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to Spanish-controlled Louisiana. There they resettled, intermarried with members of the local population, and evolved into the Cajun people, who today number over a half-million. Since their arrival in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed an unmistakable identity and a strong sense of ethnic pride.In recent decades they have contributed their lively cuisine and accordion-and-fiddle dance music to American popular culture. Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens: l'histoire racontée aux jeunes includes numerous images and over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music and horse racing heroes to Mardi Gras. Shane K. Bernard's welcomed and cherished history of the Cajun people is translated into French by Faustine Hillard. The book offers a long-sought immersion text, ideal for the young learner and adult alike.Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Chapitre premier: Les Acadiens
- pp. 3-14
- Chapitre deux: L’expulsion
- pp. 15-27
- Chapitre trois: La Louisiane
- pp. 28-42
- Conclusion
- pp. 79-80
- Chronologie
- pp. 81-84
- Remerciements
- pp. 89-90
Additional Information
ISBN
9781621039440
Related ISBN(s)
9781617037795
MARC Record
OCLC
830170193
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-13
Language
French
Open Access
No