{"id":14116,"date":"2011-06-05T23:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2013-09-05T00:38:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T00:38:35","slug":"les-cenelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14116","title":{"rendered":"Les Cenelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centenary.edu\/editions\/lescenelles_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Les Cenelles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centenary.edu\/editions\/books.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centenary College of Louisiana Press \/ Editions Tintamarre<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2003<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\nISBN: 0-9723258-9-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armand_Lanusse\" target=\"_blank\">Armand Lanusse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centenary.edu\/editions\/lescenelles_en.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centenary.edu\/editions\/Cenelles-web-A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The text is in French.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With few exceptions, the poets of <em>Les Cenelles<\/em>\u2013the very first collection of poetry by Creoles of color\u2013do not directly address their precarious situation in a South that was ever increasingly hostile to the racial caste to which they belonged. On the contrary, a naive reader might only discover the most pedestrian sorts of romantic subjects in these poems written by seventeen free men of color. However , why would Valcour B\u2026 refer to himself as an \u201cunrecognized son of New Orleans?\u201d What \u201ccruel fate\u201d might have forced P. Dalcour into exile? What is the source of the regret, the preoccupation with departure and the fear of betrayal that seeps from every line of these works?<\/p>\n<p>However gifted and diligent they might have been, free people of color were forced to live within the constraints of their fate as second class citizens. May the modern reader delve into these \u201cmodest Cenelles\u201d conscience of the troubling context that underpins their creation. Without this awareness, the profound depths of their melancholy spirit will escape him completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Cenelles Centenary College of Louisiana Press \/ Editions Tintamarre January 2003 208 pages ISBN: 0-9723258-9-1 Armand Lanusse The text is in French. With few exceptions, the poets of Les Cenelles\u2013the very first collection of poetry by Creoles of color\u2013do not directly address their precarious situation in a South that was ever increasingly hostile to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,369,8,1617,20],"tags":[6509,6510,20754,6508],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-armand-lanusse","tag-centenary-college-of-louisiana-press","tag-louisiana","tag-tintamarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}