Literature_of_Louisiana

Louisiana literature

Louisiana literature

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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

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


References

  1. Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
  2. "Regional American Cooking: South and Border States", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017
  3. 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

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