A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

Released on by Viola Fontenot
preview-18

  • A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years Book Detail

  • Author : Viola Fontenot
  • Release Date : 2018-07-05
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 102
  • ISBN 13 : 1496817087
  • File Size : 46,46 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years by Viola Fontenot PDF Summary

Book Description: Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years

File Size : 86,86 MB
Total View : 7833 Views
DOWNLOAD

Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and th

The Measure of a Woman

The Measure of a Woman

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 9003 Views
DOWNLOAD

Within these pages is a story of struggle, poverty, loss, and love as told by a young girl, born before her time to a sharecropper-father and a young, bitter mo

Osceola

Osceola

File Size : 48,48 MB
Total View : 8166 Views
DOWNLOAD

A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.

Through the Eyes of a Cajun

Through the Eyes of a Cajun

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 5919 Views
DOWNLOAD

Through the Eyes of a Cajun is a wholesome tale of a little Cajun girl named Linder May, and her coming-of-age story, while living on the Louisiana Bayou. The s