New Orleans, nodal point of the French Atlantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6150380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Marshall (0000-0002-3597-7677, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-50 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-2679 • E-ISSN: 1758-9142 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijfs.10.1and2.35_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2004604245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article argues for the importance of New Orleans within French and francophone studies, with a particular emphasis on a French Atlantic perspective. A historical overview discusses the role of New France, slavery, native Americans, Spain, immigration from Saint-Domingue, the Louisiana Purchase and the American Civil War in the formation of the city, and the rich and under-researched field of the city's nineteenth-century literary output in French is surveyed. Among the unique aspects of this history are the coherent African cultures exported to Louisiana due to the trafficking of slaves of mostly Bambara ethnicity, their crucial role in the material survival of the colony and the large presence from intermarriage, manumission under Spanish rule and an influx following the Haitian revolution of free people of colour who contributed to the formation of a Caribbean-type racial hierarchy that did not exist elsewhere in the United States. The article ends with an overview of French representations of the city, in particular A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas, and the city's place in world tourism, generating questions about the mobile and hybrid meanings attaching to Frenchness in this context
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Ethnic group · Ethnology · French · Genealogy · Hierarchy · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies
Cities of the Dead
Africans in colonial Louisiana
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
The Idea of Atlantic History
Creole New Orleans
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
Degas in New Orleans
Acadian to Cajun
French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World
The Many-Headed Hydra
Home is Where the Heart is
The Day the Music Died
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |