Celine
Remembering Louisiana, 1850-1871
Published on 1. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-8203-3187-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the middle years of her life, Celine Fremaux Garcia recollected in this memoir her Louisiana childhood and growth into maturity-a tumultuous personal period that was transformed by violence as it was dominated by fear. The result is a detailed and sensitive portrait of a child's world of awe and wonder, color, and strife, in which the Civil War and its aftermath form the backdrop for conflict and rivalry within her French middle-class immigrant family.
Reviews / Votes
This vivid memoir . . . is remarkable less for its account of battles than for its revealing portrait of a family under stress. . . . Her story is a rich account of a nineteenth-century immigrant family's struggle to survive on its own terms, in conflict not only with much of American culture but with itself. -- <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Perhaps the most eloquent testimony to the transformation of Louisiana's French community . . . Celine [is] a significant work, one that is of interest to American social historians, feminists, southern and Louisiana historians. -- <i>Journal of American History</i> A fascinating and intimate account of both the struggle of an older immigrant generation to hold on to tradition and of the psychological conflicts between mothers and daughter. -- <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Geary is a first-rate editor. His introduction provides a critical, unobtrusive appraisal of the memoir. He has corrected confusions, made identifications, and allowed Celine to tell her own story. -- <i>Journal of Southern History</i> A worthy addition to the remarkable collection of memoirs on the Civil War by Southern women such as Julia LeGrand and Sarah Morgan Dawson . . . A first-rate account. -- <i>Louisiana History</i>More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-3187-4 (9780820331874)
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Celine Fremaux Garcia (Author)
CELINE FREMAUX GARCIA (1850-1935) spent her life within the ordered, traditional world of nineteenth-century French Louisiana. She belonged to a close-knit web of relations that included the Montilly, Fremaux, and Garcia families.
Patrick J. Geary (Editor)
PATRICK GEARY is a professor of history at the University of Florida.
CELINE FREMAUX GARCIA (1850-1935) spent her life within the ordered, traditional world of nineteenth-century French Louisiana. She belonged to a close-knit web of relations that included the Montilly, Fremaux, and Garcia families.
Patrick J. Geary (Editor)
PATRICK GEARY is a professor of history at the University of Florida.