Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits - Brossura

Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien

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ISBN 10: 080712740X ISBN 13: 9780807127407

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

In Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Although he received little formal education, Desdunes-himself a Creole-was an articulate observer of his times and culture. His portraits of black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers are powerful evidence of the extraordinary role that Creoles played in the cultural and political history of Louisiana.

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Our People and Our History, originally published in French in Montreal in 1911 and translated to English in 1973, records the lives of some fifty Creoles living in New Orleans during the mid-nineteenth century. Including biographies of Creole doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers, this book demonstrates that Creoles excelled in all major professions and played an extraordinary role in both the cultural and political history of Louisiana. Although Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes, the author, received little formal education, he was articulate and observant. This series of biographies served as his dedicated effort to create due credit to, understanding of, and rich insights into the Creole people.

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• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 080712740X
• ISBN 13: 9780807127407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184
• Redattore: McCants Dorothea Olga