Bayou folk : and, A night in Acadie
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New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
ISBN
0140436812
Physical Desc
xxviii, 369 pages ; 20 cm
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0140436812
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxviii).
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In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stores. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Babou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish exquisitely from a sort of Southern novel of manners. Chopin was deeply influenced by the work of French and American realists. Many of the storeis in Bayou Folk concern young people seeking good marriage partners and better lives for themselves. Expanding this theme into a search for balance and harmony, personal fulfillment, and cultural richness, A Night in Acadie is, Bernard Koloski notes in his Introduction, "one of America's best nineteenth-century collections of short stories -- and one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic fiction". With a gentle, knowing gaze, Chopin evoked the distant world of Louisiana plantations and 'Cadian balls, and anticipated the thoroughly modern multi-ethnic, gender-sensitive, and sexually charged world of our century.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chopin, K., & Koloski, B. (1999). Bayou folk: and, A night in Acadie . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 and Bernard Koloski. 1999. Bayou Folk: And, A Night in Acadie. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 and Bernard Koloski. Bayou Folk: And, A Night in Acadie Penguin Books, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chopin, Kate, and Bernard Koloski. Bayou Folk: And, A Night in Acadie Penguin Books, 1999.
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