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- Cajun alphabet / by Rice, James,1934-2004.(CARDINAL)722122;
Short alphabetical rhymes introduce Cajun vocabulary and Cajun culture.- Subjects: Alphabet rhymes.; Cajun French dialect; Cajuns; Cajun French dialect; Cajuns; Alphabet;
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- Cajun and Creole folktales : the French oral tradition of South Louisiana / by Ancelet, Barry Jean.(CARDINAL)725275;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and indexes.- Subjects: Cajun French dialect; Cajuns; Folklore; Tales;
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- Louisiana French folk songs. by Whitfield, Irène Thérèse.(CARDINAL)165155;
Bibliography: pages 153-156.- Subjects: Folk music.; Notated music.; Scores.; Folk songs, French; Folk songs, Creole; Old State Library Collection.;
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- Stone motel : memoirs of a Cajun boy / by Ardoin, J. Morris,1959-author.;
Prologue -- Part I: The canasta summers, 1969-1976 -- Blue barrette in a puddle of pee -- Hole in the road -- Zanny: kids and horses -- New car, new home -- A motor hotel -- Are we crazy? -- Where the world begins -- Mémère: pauvre bête -- That Christmas glow -- Our father -- Billy Joe -- Apache -- The doe -- Wonderland -- A perfect day -- Prends courage -- The boy from apartment 18 -- At the table -- I bet I know what y'all want -- Scorched sheets -- Sparrrkling! -- The regulars -- Zanny: the souvenir -- Grass, carpets, weeds -- Croquet Sunday -- Advance token to Oatmeal Avenue -- Y'all shut up and pick fig -- Menfolk -- Relief -- Pigs and rats -- A kiss in the remnants -- The meat man -- Chilled lagniappe -- Take the bug for a spin -- Someone else -- Gilda, Glenda, Alice -- Part II: The elders depart, 1989-1998 -- Momma and me at the Peacock -- Crash -- Eliza Mae: no going back -- Zanny: just gone -- Mémère: long as I can, me -- Nous sommes ensemble -- Zanny: broken -- Popeye's in the oven -- Epilogue."Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy is the story of a gay preteen, his seven siblings, their violent father, overwhelmed mother, unstoppable grandmother, and the sordid array of customers they encounter at their family's roadside motel, situated in the hot, prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana. When half of the motel burns in a Christmastime fire, the family scrambles to get back on their feet and get things moving again. The fire rekindles the father's long-repressed violent nature, and while he attacks several of his children, he reserves his most ferocious beatings for his second son whom he feels needs "fixing." When they were not working at the Stone Motel, Morris Ardoin and his siblings played canasta, an "old ladies" card game, which provided a refuge from the blistering summer sun and helped them avoid their mercurial father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. In this memoir, Ardoin provides an episodic narrative, detailing the sweet, sometimes awkward, often funny memories of his family, but moves beyond the personal to also document Louisiana life in the 1960s and 1970s. Through his descriptions of the regional French dialect spoken by his elders, to nostalgic images of places lost to time and progress, a unique portrait of a small community in Cajun Louisiana unfolds. Moving from childhood into adulthood, Ardoin's story speaks to what shapes a life-location, culture, language, heritage, and family"--"Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Ardoin, J. Morris, 1959-; Families; Gay people; Homosexuals.;
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- Do you speak American? [videorecording] by Buchanan, Christopher.; Cran, William.(CARDINAL)185744; MacNeil, Robert,1931-(CARDINAL)159113; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)(CARDINAL)280602; KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.); MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.(CARDINAL)206887; Paladin InVision, Ltd.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)150050;
Cameraman, Allan Palmer ; editor, Joe Frost ; composer, Paul Foss.Reporter: Robert MacNeil.Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy. Episode one discusses linguistic dialect zones, the tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, the impact of dialect on grapholect, the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-American English, minority linguistic profiling, biases against nonstandard speech, and the general perception of the U.S. Midland dialect as "normal American." Looks at hip-hop street talk, IM slang, Pittsburghese, and Gullah and Geechee. Episode two reviews Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Examines regional differences in vernacular, the steady displacement of Southern coastal dialect by inland dialect, the accents of JFK and LBJ, and the Texas border town of El Cenizo, where Spanish is the official language. Episode three looks at Spanglish, Chicano, Ebonics, and "Surfer Dude." Discusses the implications of voice-activation technology, opinions on the role of Spanish in the U.S., why teens create their own language, gay self-empowerment by redefining discriminatory terms, the oo-fronting sound shift, and whether technology will reinforce or weaken racial and regional stereotypes.DVD-R.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; English language; English language; English language; English language; English language;
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