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Informationen zum Autor Barry Jean Ancelet , a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, is the author of many books about the French culture of southern Louisiana, including Cajun Country, Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana , and Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles . Marcia Gaudet is professor emerita of English at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and founding director of the Ernest J. Gaines Center. She is a Fellow of the American Folklore Society; author of Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America ; and coeditor of Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture , all published by University Press of Mississippi. Carl Lindahl is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor of English and folklore at the University of Houston. He has authored or edited seventeen books, including Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana , Cajun Mardi Gras Masks , Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Märchen , American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress , and We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery . Klappentext How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when their institutions failed
