| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Cashell, Mary Florence
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| URN |
etd-04112008-114436 |
| Title |
Postcolonial Writing in Louisiana: Surpassing the Role of French Traditionalism in Alfred Mercier's L’habitation Saint-Ybars |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
French Studies |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Jack Yeager |
Committee Chair |
| Katharine Jensen |
Committee Member |
| Rosemary Peters |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- Creole
- French
- Mercier
- Louisiana
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Postcolonial
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| Date of Defense |
2008-04-02 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This thesis explores the roles of French patriarchal ideologies of the Enlightenment and exoticism in Alfred Mercier’s novel, L’habitation Saint-Ybars. His novel portrays the antebellum Creole plantation as a hierarchy of strict gender roles similar to those that Enlightenment philosophy espoused. I use the family in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s classic, Paul et Virginie, as one example of such a hierarchy. There are also, however, several instances where Mercier departs from the paternalistic norm. I interpret Mercier’s moving away from this model to be a declaration of a unique Louisianian identity.
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