Cajun and Creole Folktales
A Nonfiction, Literature, Folk Tales book. This book is more suited to the folklorist or student of folklore than to casual reading. The stories are...
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries.This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful...
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- Pages: 300 pages
- ISBN: 9780878057092 / 878057099
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A good collection of stories, but I think the author/collector's notes and comments fill up more of this book than the stories do. This book is more suited to the folklorist or student of folklore than to casual reading. The stories are presented in the original Cajun or Creole French with a side by side English translation. The author has classified the tales using the Aarne/Thompson tale type index (plus Baughman, Klipple & others), allowing easy comparison to...
