The literature of
Louisiana
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,
United States
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, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
,
Alcée Fortier,
Ernest Gaines,
Walker Percy
Walker Percy, OSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, '' The Moviegoer'', won the Nat ...
,
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature.
She was best known for her series of novels '' The Vampire Chronicles'' ...
and
John Kennedy Toole.
History
A
printing press
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began operating in
in 1764.
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The French-language newspapers ''Courrier de la Louisiane'' (1807-1860) and ''
L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans'' (1827-1923) published "literary material."
The francophone
Athénée Louisianais formed in 1876.
Lafcadio Hearn
, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (; el, Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χέρν, Patríkios Lefkádios Chérn, Irish: Pádraig Lafcadio O'hEarain), was an Irish- Greek- Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture a ...
's ''La Cuisine Creole,'' a
cookbook
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Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in a particular cuisine or category of food.
Recipes in cookbooks are organized in various ways: by course (appetizer, first cour ...
, was published in New Orleans in 1885.
In the late 19th century
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin (, also ; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminis ...
(1851–1904),
Grace King (1852–1932), and
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved i ...
(1875–1935) wrote about
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creoles (french: Créoles de la Louisiane, lou, Moun Kréyòl la Lwizyàn, es, Criollos de Luisiana) are people descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana (New France), Louisiana before it became a part of the United States ...
.
In 1935
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the lit ...
launched ''
The Southern Review,'' based in Baton Rouge.
See also
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:Writers from Louisiana
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List of newspapers in Louisiana
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:Louisiana in fiction
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:Libraries in Louisiana
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Southern United States literature
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American literary regionalism
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References
Bibliography
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* Louisiana Literature and Literary Figures. edited by Mathé Allain. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004
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External links
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University of Richmond
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course)
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American literature by state
Literature
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