Colonial Subjects Torn between Empires and Gods: Acadian Heritage in Elizabeth Nell Dubus’s Cajun
Keywords:
Acadian, Cajun, Creole, Southern Louisiana, Colonialism, IdentityAbstract
This article is about the Acadians who are the religious and political exiles of the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century North American colonies in Elizabeth Nell Dubus’s Cajun 1994 . Dubus’s endeavor to reflect the Acadian cultural heritage in a historical standpoint in the context of the political turmoil and social transformations of these centuries unveils the under-represented history of the Southern Louisiana area. The aim of this article is to analyze Acadian experience of colonial North America in the nexus of imperial power balances and cultural confrontations as represented in Dubus’s Cajun.
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