Juliane Braun
Biographic Data
| ID | 5643680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliane Braun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Braun |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3746-9027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Re-Visiting the Creole Myth
Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on a newspaper article and two case studies related to the New Orleans theatre, this essay proposes a new periodization for the e…
Creole Drama
Bioprospecting Breadfruit
This article traces the breadfruit tree's strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American descriptions of the breadfruit tree, the essay argues not only for a more sustained engagement with mul…
Strange beasts of the sea”
On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven months of sailing up and down the North American Pacific Coast, however, Cook was forced to conclude that such a…
Bioprospecting Breadfruit
This article traces the breadfruit tree's strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American descriptions of the breadfruit tree, the essay argues not only for a more sustained engagement with mul…
Strange beasts of the sea”
On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven months of sailing up and down the North American Pacific Coast, however, Cook was forced to conclude that such a…
Strange beasts of the sea”
On 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven months of sailing up and down the North American Pacific Coast, however, Cook was forced to conclude that such a…
Creole Drama
Bioprospecting Breadfruit
This article traces the breadfruit tree's strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American descriptions of the breadfruit tree, the essay argues not only for a more sustained engagement with mul…
Re-Visiting the Creole Myth
Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on a newspaper article and two case studies related to the New Orleans theatre, this essay proposes a new periodization for the e…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Creole language (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · History (2 works)