Literature 2312 - Louisiana

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Bard College

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French Studies This course considers Louisiana not just as a place but as an idea. What does Louisiana (and New Orleans, in particular) mean in the American imagination? How did the various populations distinctive to this region-the Creoles, Cajuns, "Americans," and free people of color, amongothers-help define this meaning? The history of the region is one of traumatic change, beginning with its sale to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase and including the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, cholera and yellow fever epidemics, the flood of 1927, the oil boom and bust, and Hurricane Katrina. How has the idea of Louisiana (and New Orleans) persisted through all of these crises? Students read the first French accounts of Louisiana, then turn to works by George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lafcadio Hearn, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Armstrong, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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