English HW 2

Assignment Sheet: Annotated Bibliography

Audience: Classmates

Genre: The Annotated Bibliography

Purpose: To find in the databases, summarize and evaluate 8 – 10 potential sources, such as articles from journals, documentary films and scholarly/academic materials; this is for the purpose of identifying the best sources for supporting evidence for your argumentation/research paper.

Format: 12pt Font, Times New Roman, Double-spaced,

Follow MLA style. For more information, See Purdue Owl on annotated bibliographies. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

**Please put your topic and your argument, expressed in a thesis statement, at the top of your annotated bibliography (before the header).

Directions: After reading Writing Today pg. 296-297 and consulting the Purdue OWL on the Annotated Bibliography, use the TSU library databases to find 8 – 10 potential sources for reading to be informed on your argumentation topic. After each bibliographic entry, write a short summary of each. Consult the following sample annotated bib as a guide:

Annotated Bibliography

Chopin, Kate. Complete Novels and Stories. New York: Library of America, 2002. Print. Chopin's short story collections 'A Night in Acadie' and 'Bayou

     Folk', found with other writings here, reflect the Acadian and Creole

     cultures of the southern Louisiana region. I will use the cultural

     information in the stories, as well as Chopin's treatment of them, to

     illuminate ways in which the people of the region were separate or removed

     from the white upper class Creoles of New Orleans during the period

     portrayed in The Awakening.

Gladu, Andre, dir. Maroon: On the Trail of Creoles in North America. 2005. National Film Board of Canada. DVD. The film traces the history of the

Creole people of North America, focusing primarily on the Louisiana region,

and reveals the African escaped-slave (maroon), American Indian and Acadian origins of Creole culture. Director Gladu argues that white Acadian, or French-speaking, Creoles have used the cultural identification term, though Creoles are more markedly a product of black 'maroon' and indigenous influences. I will use the content of the film to illuminate the cultural gap between the upper-class white Creole society into which Edna Pontellier has married and the poor and working class Creoles she visits throughout the novel.  

Hornung, Alfred. "'Unstoppable' Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a

     Transnational Cultural Space." American Literature 78.4 (2006): 859-867.

     Print. Hornung reviews three books in this exploration of creolization n

     the Southern United States. He looks at literature and folk literature and

     particularly identifies the Spanish and African influences on the

     literature of Creole cultures of the Southern United State. I plan to use

     this article to fortify the definitions of creole and creolization I put

     forth in my argument.

Parmiter, Tara K. "Home Away from Home: The Summer Place in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American Women's Literature." Dissertation Abstracts International 67.6 (2006): n. pag. Print.

Perrin, Patricia F. "Oral Accounts of the Storms of 1893 and 1915 from the Cheniere Caminada Area." Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 4.54 (1976): n. pag. Print.

Spitzer, Nicholas R. "Monde Creole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana

     Creoles and Creolization of World Cultures." The Journal of American

     Folklore 116.459 (2003): 57-72. Print. Nicholas R. Spitzer reveals,

     through the lense of folkorist studies, that definition of the process of

     cultural and linguistic creolization has changed over time and from one

     racial or national component group to another, from one class to another

     according to the agenda of each. He discusses the implications of these

     views with regard to cultural stability or maintenance and evolution

     throughout regional history. In the latter third of the article, he applies

     these concepts to an exploration of regional music. This article will be

     used to support my assertions regarding the relative instability within the

     concept of 'creole'.

Taylor, Helen. "The Perfume of the Past: Kate Chopin and Post-Colonial New

     Orleans." The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Ed. Janet Beer.

     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 147-160. Print.

Tidwell, Mike. Bayou Farewell: the Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's

     Cajun Coast. New York: Pantheon, 2003. Print. Mike Tidwell argues that the

     human activity in the geographical and cultural history of the Louisiana

     Coastal region has been leading to the future demise of both the culture -

     Cajun, Creole and Indigenous - and the land of the area. In doing so he

      presents a historical account and vivid description of what existed and

      what exists now in the southern third of Louisiana. I will use Tidwell’s

      historical account and geographic explanations to support my assertions

      about place and culture.