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Old Creole Days
Creole life during the post-Civil War era is brilliantly depicted in this novel by celebrated author George Washington Cable. The stories in this volume illustrate life in New Orleans by using local dialect and colorful descriptions. Cable helped to lead the colorist movement in the 19th century.
Paperback, 204 pages
Published
September 6th 2007
by Book Jungle
(first published July 1st 1989)
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Even in the nineteenth century, New Orleans was a subject for nostalgia. Areas that are now largely tourist dominated were then fading French- and Spanish-speaking quarters. Mixed-race women and the quadroon balls figure prominently here, so race and gender issues are, perhaps unsurprisingly, both predominant and often problematic, though Cable himself was strongly pro-civil rights. Plots are often predictable, and there's even one that Cable uses twice. But these stories are fascinating, an...more
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Fly in amber of a place and time. A bit hard to follow because some dialogue written in dialect. When the Creoles are speaking French to each other, it's in standard English. If they're speaking English it's written in dialect. It took me a while to be able to hear them. There is a lot here about the careful measurements of racial composition. Many plots turn on the possibility of 'mixing' occurring or having occurred. Though some witness or document usually shows up to prove it wasn't really so...more
The story "Cafe des Exiles", and this collection of stories in general, makes me miss New Orleans terribly ... not that I do not most of the time anyway.
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