{"id":34979,"date":"2013-12-09T04:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34979"},"modified":"2013-12-09T04:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:15:20","slug":"creole-echoes-the-francophone-poetry-of-nineteenth-century-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34979","title":{"rendered":"Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/84hcq5yw9780252028762.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Illinois Press<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2004<br \/>\n280 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9 in.<br \/>\n1 black &amp; white photograph<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07149-2<\/p>\n<p>Translated by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/templates\/dept\/rlan\/general_faculty.htt?function=f1&amp;department=RLAN&amp;faculty=nshapiro\" target=\"_blank\">Norman R. Shapiro<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of French<br \/>\n<em>Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/84hcq5yw9780252028762.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/images\/9780252071492_lg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A collection of the first published works of Creole poets of the 1800s, in French, appearing beside the new English translations by the award-winning translator Norman R. Shapiro<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creole poets have always eluded easy definition, infusing European poetic forms with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a> themes and Native American and African influences to produce an impressive variety of often highly accomplished and always strikingly engaging verses. The first major collection of its kind, <em>Creole Echoes<\/em> contains over a hundred of these poems by more than thirty different poets\u2014Louisiana residents of European, African, and Caribbean origin.<\/p>\n<p>The poems gathered here exhibit the Creole poets&#8217; wide range of theme, tone, and sensibility. Somber elegies, whimsical verse, animal fables, love sonnets, odes to nature, curses, polemics, and lauds all find voices here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana University of Illinois Press January 2004 280 pages 6 x 9 in. 1 black &amp; white photograph Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07149-2 Translated by: Norman R. Shapiro, Professor of French Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut A collection of the first published works of Creole poets of the 1800s, in French, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,1196,369,1617,20],"tags":[16515,16516,1111],"class_list":["post-34979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-louisiana","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-norman-r-shapiro","tag-norman-shapiro","tag-university-of-illinois-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34979","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=34979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}