Louisiana literature explained

The literature of Louisiana, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include Kate Chopin, Alcée Fortier, Ernest Gaines, Walker Percy, Anne Rice and John Kennedy Toole.

History

A printing press began operating in New Orleans in 1764.^[1]

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's La Cuisine Creole, a cookbook, was published in New Orleans in 1885.

In the late 19th century Kate Chopin (1851–1904), Grace King (1852–1932), and Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) wrote about Louisiana Creole people.^[2]

In 1935 Robert Penn Warren launched The Southern Review, based in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana Literary Award

The Louisiana Library Association has made an annual award to Louisiana Literature since 1949.^[3]

Louisiana Writer Award

The Louisiana Writer Award is given annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book at the State Library of Louisiana "to recognize the extraordinary contributions to the state's literary heritage exemplified by the artist's body of work."^[4]

See also

• • List of newspapers in Louisiana
    • Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

Bibliography

published in 19th-20th c.

• 1843-
• Book: Charles Testut .

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  . fr . Portraits litteraires de la Nouvelle-Orleans . 1850.
  • Book: May W. Mount . Some Notables of New Orleans; Biographical and Descriptive Sketches of the Artists of New Orleans, and their Work . 1896 .
• Book: Alexander Nicolas De Menil . Literature of the Louisiana Territory . 1904 .
• Book: . History of Louisiana . Goupil & Co. . 1904. https://books.google.com/books?id=kDV5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA261. English literature of Louisiana . 261–263. (+ French literature, p.259+)
• Book: The South in the Building of the Nation . Southern Historical Publication Society . Richmond, VA . 1909. Louisiana's Contribution to the Literature of the United States . 314–326. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=400. 7. 2027/yale.39002004114386?urlappend=%3Bseq=400 .
• Book: Library of Southern Literature . Lucian Lamar Knight . Martin and Hoyt Company . Atlanta . 1913. Fifty Reading Courses: Louisiana. 16 . 195. 2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=503 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=503. HathiTrust .
• Book: Elsie Dershem . Outline of American State Literature . World Company . Lawrence, Kansas . 1921. Louisiana . https://archive.org/stream/outlineofamerica001157mbp#page/n67/mode/2up . Internet Archive.
• Book: Ruby Van Allen Caulfield . French Literature of Louisiana . 4174484 . New York . Columbia University . 1929 .
• Book: . Les écrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle . fr . 1933 . reprint 1975
• Book: NY . Hastings House . Louisiana: a Guide to the State . . . 1941 . Literature . 178–189. 2027/uc1.$b727648?urlappend=%3Bseq=232 . 9780403021697 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b727648?urlappend=%3Bseq=232.
• Book: . Guide to the Study of United States Imprints . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-36761-6 . 1971 . (Includes information about Louisiana literature)
• Book: Mignon Morse . Northwest Louisiana Authors . 1988 .
• Book: Dorothy H. Brown . Louisiana Women Writers . 1992 .

published in 21st c.

• Book: Joseph M. Flora . Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan . Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs . . 978-0-8071-2692-9 . 2001 . Literature of Louisiana . 455-461 . Barbara C. Ewell . . registration .
• Book: Carolyn Perry . Mary Louise Weaks . History of Southern Women's Literature. 2002 . Louisiana State University Press . 978-0-8071-2753-7. Louisiana Writers of the Postbellum South . 201+. Joan Wylie Hall.
• Book: Charles L. Crow. Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. 2003 . Blackwell . 978-0-470-99907-3. Regional Identities in Louisiana and the Bayou Country. Suzanne Disheroon-Green.
• Louisiana Literature and Literary Figures. edited by Mathé Allain. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2004
• Book: Norman R. Shapiro, translator . M. Lynn Weiss. Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-century Louisiana. 2004 . University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-07149-2. (Anthology)
• Book: American History Through Literature 1870-1920 . Tom Quirk . Gary Scharnhorst . Detroit . Charles Scribner's Sons . 9780684314938 . 2006 . New Orleans . Kris Lackey.
• Book: . Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study. 2013 . University Press of Mississippi. 978-1-61703-910-2.
• Book: Susan Larson. Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. 978-0-8071-5309-3 . 2nd . 2013.
• Book: Rien Fertel . Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. 2014. Louisiana State University Press. 978-0-8071-5824-1.

External links

• Web site: Literary New Orleans . 2013 . Suzanne Jones . (Website developed for University of Richmond course)
• Louisiana Literary Award
• Web site: Literary Landmarks by State: Louisiana . American Library Association . Chicago . United for Libraries . 27 February 2009 .
• Web site: Literature, Reading and Writing . Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections: Manuscript Subject Guides . Louisiana State University Libraries .

Notes and References

1. (Fulltext)
2. Book: Regionalism and Local Color Fiction . Donna M. Campbell . American History Through Literature 1870-1920 . Tom Quirk . Gary Scharnhorst . Detroit . Charles Scribner's Sons . 9780684314938 . 2006 .
3. "Dawson, Alma, "Awards," pp. 70-73 in Dawson, Alma, Florence M Jumonville, and Louisiana Library Association. 2003. A History of the Louisiana Library Association, 1925-2000. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana Library Association.
4. https://slol.libguides.com/LouisianaWriterAward/Main Louisiana Writer Award.