Postcolonial Writing in Louisiana: Surpassing the Role of French Traditionalism in Alfred Mercier's Lhabitation Saint-Ybars

This thesis explores the roles of French patriarchal ideologies of the Enlightenment and exoticism in Alfred Merciers novel, Lhabitation Saint-Ybars. His novel portrays the antebellum Creole plantation as a hierarchy of strict gender roles similar to those that Enlightenment philosophy espoused. I u...

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Main Author: Cashell, Mary Florence
Other Authors: Jack Yeager
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2008
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112008-114436/