With her neighborhood in decline following the Watts riots and the devastation of Reaganomics and her family divided by secrets, violence, and identity crises, Camille Broussard hopes to use her love of family and of cooking to bring everyone back together by opening a restaurant and enlisting her family to help get the enterprise on its feet.
When his family attends a reunion in Louisiana, eleven-year-old Ray learns about his Creole roots and about the circumstances that have kept him from ever meeting his father's father.
In the early years of the Civil War Victorine LaGrande returns to New Orleans where her father has arranged for her to marry Andr? Valmont. Victorine sees Andr? arm in arm with another woman, and then meets Dr. Brent Whitman. Will Victorine risk her entire way to life to marry outside the Creole tradition?.
Presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities in the southern Louisiana region, which has been identified by ethnographers as the most complex rural society in North America.
encounters in the Creole world of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
Benfey, Christopher E. G.
1997
Discusses Edgar Degas's 1872 trip to post-Civil War New Orleans to meet his mother's family, suggesting that the visit elicited some of his finest paintings, and discusses the influence of some local writers.
In rural Louisiana after Reconstruction, Therese Lafirme, a thirty-year-old widow, falls in love with David Hosmer, but rejects his marriage proposal because of her religious opposition to divorce.
An eight-year-old Creole boy on Galveston Island grieves the death of his cat Crabmeat, but when another lost cat leads him to a new friend he starts to heal.
Introduces students to the many ways the Creole people have adapted to the climate of the island of Guadeloupe, describing the food they eat, the clothes they wear, their daily lives, and other related topics.
