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Constructing the criollo archive
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Antony Higgins |
xvii, 283 p. ; 24 cm |
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Ray and the best family reunion ever
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Mildred Pitts Walter |
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. |
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Settler and creole reenactment
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Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Daniel Spoth |
"Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish nat… |
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Kate Chopin
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Kate Chopin |
A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis native lived in New Orleans for a dozen years an… |
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The libertine colony
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Doris Garraway |
Summary:Doris Garraway explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degeneracy in the 17th and 18th century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were… |
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Crawfish dreams
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Nancy Rawles |
"The uplifting story of a woman who cooks up a plan to bring her family back together and discovers that love, sharing, and a dash of daring are the secret ingredients that can turn dreams into reali… |
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Beautiful Belize, Interesting Words and Sayings
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Frank Palacio |
xxii, 68 pages ; 23 cm |
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Jass
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David Fulmer |
297 pages : 23 cm |
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Lost river
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David Fulmer |
Autumn 1913. New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months, trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with hi… |
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The politics of passion
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Gloria Wekker |
Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly… |
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The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
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Kate Chopin,Edmund Wilson,Per Seyersted |
Contains:
Wiser than a god --
A point at issue! --
Miss Witherwell's mistake --
With the violin --
Mrs. Mobry's reason --
A no-account Creole --
For Marse Chouchoute --
The going away of Li… |
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Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the making of the Anglo-Dutch Americas, 1585-1660
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Linda Marinda Heywood,John K. Thornton |
331 readable pages of well organized, very well researched African History describing the complicated relationships amongst Angolan Kings, Queens and Lords; Congolese Christian Kings; Catholic Jesuit… |
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