318 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
318 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
318 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across the long twentieth century, revealing hidden histories that so deeply shaped the course of North America. Modern French North America was born from the process of coming to terms with the idea of conquest after the fall of New France. The memory of... Read more
Prologue, Introduction: Doomed to Suffer Long, Chapter 1: The Tocquevillian Gaze, Chapter 2: The Cult of Evangeline, Chapter 3: Frenchy’s War, Chapter 4: Nous and les autres, Chapter 5: French is Our Black Colour, Chapter 6: Cultural Avengers, Cultural Fatigue, Epilogue: Social Networks, Cultural Trauma, and Memory, Bibliography, Acknowledgements
Biography
Ryan André Brasseaux is dean of Davenport College and lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. Brasseaux specializes in vernacular American music, French North American history, and public humanities. He is the author of Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music.
