Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, Vol. II, No. 3 — Early Louisiana French Life and Folklore from the Anonymous Breaux Manuscript as edited by Professor Jay K. Ditchy
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Folklore Society, 1966.
Paperback. 8.75" x 5.5". 64pp. Original tan wraps with light foxing. Contents clean and free of marks.
A scarce issue of the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, the journal of the Louisiana Folklore Society, presenting selections from the Anonymous Breaux Manuscript — a foundational primary source for Louisiana French Creole and Acadian culture and language — in the edition prepared by Jay K. Ditchy of Tulane University, here selected, arranged, and translated into English by George F. Reinecke, Professor of English at the University of New Orleans and editor of the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. The Breaux Manuscript preserves an irreplaceable record of early French colonial life, oral tradition, and folk culture in Louisiana; Ditchy's French-language edition had long been the only published form of the text, and Reinecke's translation made the folkloric portions accessible to English-language scholars for the first time. Very good. Item #17667
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