I Talk More of The French
Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers' Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3544692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas T Rinehart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 439-456 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cal.2016.0063 |
| OpenAlex | W2470319049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades-namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “arenas” to examine their overlap in the French Creole culture of Louisiana. It focuses on the “other” slave narratives-the ex-slave interviews collected by the Federal Writers’ Project in the 1930s, specifically those from Louisiana, as well as Texas and Arkansas, that were translated from French or Creole, include French or Creole words or passages, or recount the history of French slavery in the United States. These previously unacknowledged texts reveal how the histories of American and French colonial slaveries converged to produce an “unwritten” Francophone slave narrative tradition
Art · Art history · Colonialism · Creole language · Folklore · Legend · Literature · Miller · Narrative · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Philosophy
The WPA Narratives as Historical Sources
Africans in colonial Louisiana
American Creoles
Early African American Print Culture
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
Louisiana
A Divided Prism
The Slave Narrative
French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
I Was Born
Assessing Memory
The Background of the Slave Narrative Collection
Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |