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The literature of Louisiana, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include Kate Chopin, Alcée Fortier, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, Anne Rice and John Kennedy Toole.[1]
History[edit]
A printing press began operating in New Orleans in 1764.[2]
The French-language newspapers Courrier de la Louisiane (1807-1860) and L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1827-1923) published "literary material."[3]
The francophone Athénée Louisianais formed in 1876. Lafcadio Hearn's La Cuisine Creole, a cookbook, was published in New Orleans in 1885.[4]
In the late 19th century Kate Chopin (1851–1904), Grace King (1852–1932), and Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) wrote about Louisiana Creole people.[5]
In 1935 Robert Penn Warren launched The Southern Review, based in Baton Rouge.
See also[edit]
- Category:Writers from Louisiana
- List of newspapers in Louisiana
- Category:Louisiana in fiction
- Category:Libraries in Louisiana
- Southern United States literature
- American literary regionalism
References[edit]
- ^ Ewell 2001.
- ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ^ "Regional American Cooking: South and Border States", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017
- ^ Donna M. Campbell (2006). "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction". In Tom Quirk; Gary Scharnhorst (eds.). American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684314938.
Bibliography[edit]
published in 19th-20th c.[edit]
- L'Album littéraire: journal des jeunes gens, amateurs de littérature [Literary Album] (in French), New Orleans, OCLC 288024259 1843-
- Charles Testut [in French] (1850). Portraits litteraires de la Nouvelle-Orleans (in French).
- Thomas M'Caleb, ed. (1894), The Louisiana Book: Selections from the Literature of the State, New Orleans: R.F. Straughan, OCLC 759282
- May W. Mount (1896). Some Notables of New Orleans; Biographical and Descriptive Sketches of the Artists of New Orleans, and their Work.
- Alexander Nicolas De Menil (1904). Literature of the Louisiana Territory.
- Alcée Fortier (1904). "English literature of Louisiana". History of Louisiana. Goupil & Co. pp. 261–263. (+ French literature, p.259+)
- "Louisiana's Contribution to the Literature of the United States". The South in the Building of the Nation. Vol. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 314–326. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386.
- Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Louisiana". Library of Southern Literature. Vol. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 195. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust.
- Elsie Dershem (1921). "Louisiana". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
- Ruby Van Allen Caulfield (1929). French Literature of Louisiana. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 4174484.
- Edward Larocque Tinker (1933). Les écrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle (in French). reprint 1975
- Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Literature". Louisiana: a Guide to the State. American Guide Series. NY: Hastings House. pp. 178–189. hdl:2027/uc1.$b727648. ISBN 9780403021697.
- G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Louisiana literature)
- Mignon Morse (1988). Northwest Louisiana Authors.
- Dorothy H. Brown (1992). Louisiana Women Writers.
published in 21st c.[edit]
- Barbara C. Ewell (2001). "Literature of Louisiana". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 455-461. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
- Joan Wylie Hall (2002). "Louisiana Writers of the Postbellum South". In Carolyn Perry; Mary Louise Weaks (eds.). History of Southern Women's Literature. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 201+. ISBN 978-0-8071-2753-7.
- Suzanne Disheroon-Green (2003). "Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country". In Charles L. Crow (ed.). Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-99907-3.
- Louisiana Literature and Literary Figures. edited by Mathé Allain. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004
- M. Lynn Weiss, ed. (2004). Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-century Louisiana. Norman R. Shapiro, translator. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07149-2. (Anthology)
- Kris Lackey (2006). "New Orleans". In Tom Quirk; Gary Scharnhorst (eds.). American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684314938.
- Catharine Savage Brosman (2013). Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-61703-910-2.
- Susan Larson (2013). Booklover's Guide to New Orleans (2nd ed.). Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-5309-3.
- Rien Fertel (2014). Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-5824-1.
External links[edit]
- Suzanne Jones, ed. (2013). "Literary New Orleans". (Website developed for University of Richmond course)
- United for Libraries (27 February 2009). "Literary Landmarks by State: Louisiana". Chicago: American Library Association.
- "Literature, Reading and Writing". Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections: Manuscript Subject Guides. Louisiana State University Libraries.