How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the
dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its
hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun
culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the
collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and
anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim
Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux,
Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an
oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on
the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to
place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the
innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual
references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a
transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various
ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity
both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and
in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and
Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the
mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the
Cajun identity and collective memory.
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