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Imagining the Creole City - The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Hardcover)
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Imagining the Creole City - The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Hardcover)
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In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning
cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with
America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the
Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output -- histories
and novels, poetry and plays -- that white Creoles used to imagine
themselves as a unified community of writers and readers. Rien
Fertel argues that Charles Gayarré's English-language histories
of Louisiana, which emphasized the state's dual connection to
America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole
print culture predicated on Louisiana's exceptionalism. The
writings of authors like Grace King, Adrien Rouquette, and Alfred
Mercier consciously fostered an image of Louisiana as a particular
social space, and of themselves as the true inheritors of its
history and culture. In turn, the forging of this white Creole
identity created a close-knit community of cosmopolitan Creole
elites, who reviewed each other's books, attended the same salons,
crusaded against the popular fiction of George Washington Cable,
and worked together to preserve the French language in local and
state governmental institutions. Together they reimagined the
definition of ""Creole"" and used it as a marker of status and
power. By the end of this group's era of cultural prominence,
Creole exceptionalism had become a cornerstone in the myth of
Louisiana in general and of New Orleans in particular. In defining
themselves, the authors in the white Creole print community also
fashioned a literary identity that resonates even today.
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