Open AccessA Sisters’ World: Reasons of the South and Domestic Whispers in Grace King’s Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters
Author(s) -
Daniela Daniele
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annali di ca' foscari. serie occidentale
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2499-2232
pISSN - 2499-1562
DOI - 10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2019/01/010
Subject(s) - memoir , ideology , colonialism , spanish civil war , creole language , history , vernacular , gender studies , sociology , art , literature , law , art history , political science , politics , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics
Grace King documented the American Civil War from the Southern perspective of the losers, in times in which the Northern press urged her to embrace the winners’ ideology. As she witnessed the decline of the French colonial project in post-bellum Louisiana, her writing task was to preserve the Frenchified vernacular and the exquisite Creole traditions from oblivion. Her tales and memoirs from New Orleans’ history convey the tenacity of former mistresses and colored servants in mutual defense of their refined domestic order and family bonds disrupted by the brotherly fight.