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245 10 $a Folklore figures of French and Creole Louisiana / $c Nathan J. Rabalais.
264  1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2021]
300    $a xiv, 241 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  $a Introduction : origins and evolution of Louisiana's French and Creole folklore tradition -- Lapin and other animal tricksters -- The master thief, a human trickster -- The many faces of Jean le Sot -- Un sacré conte : anticlerical humor in Louisiana folklore -- Bayou belles : the fairy tales of French and Creole Louisiana -- Mystery, magic, and curses -- Epilogue : contemporary uses of folklore figures.
520    $a ""Folk Figures of French and Creole Louisiana" offers an in-depth analysis of Louisiana's French and Creole folklore, examining how figures of folklore arose from the state's remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These characters and traits remain an integral presence in Louisiana's contemporary cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children's books. As an expression of the region's culture, Louisiana's folklore lends itself as a symbolic and cultural manifestation of the collective imaginary. By undertaking comparative analyses of elements of Louisiana's oral tradition and contextualizing these analyses with a discussion of major immigration phenomena, Rabalais demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators for sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. While existing scholarship on Louisiana folklore frequently focuses on collections of folktales, "Folk Figures of French and Creole Louisiana" draws on previous work to create an annotated corpus of specific figures and genres. By placing Louisiana in the larger context of la Francophonie, Rabalais argues that folktales are evidence of cultural adaptation and collective experience. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles allows comparisons of Louisiana's variants of the same genres to see how characters, motifs, and morals have adapted to their new context. This historical and comparative approach illustrates what motifs and themes remain sufficiently relevant to persist throughout time ('stable functions') or how they are expressed and adapted to the sociocultural environment of Louisiana ('variable functions'). Rabalais's analyses are particularly informed by recent research on cultural trauma, positing that collective trauma experienced by Louisiana's major ethnic groups - the Grand dérangement, slavery, linguistic discrimination, etc. - has resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European or African counterparts. Rabalais also examines how culturally shared experiences such as those mentioned above have resulted in an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, like physical strength, found in the French and African traditions are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of a protagonist who succeeds through wit and cunning rather than brute force. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of "Bouki et Lapin" and "Tortie" demonstrate the trickster hero's ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. The studies presented on these lesser known stories, largely absent from the Anglocentric research of the twentieth-century on African-American oral tradition, also contribute to the field of folklore and anthropology by reframing this repertoire more accurately as the product of an African-Caribbean cultural continuum. Furthermore, by examining variants of the Bouki et Lapin tales, also found in Cajun communities, Rabalais demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sustained interracial contact and sociocultural adaptation"-- $c Provided by publisher.
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