Chita: A Memory of Last Island

by Lafcadio Hearn, Arlin Turner (Introduction)

Overview

This is an unusual exotic novel of coastal Louisiana, unique in the local color movement for its impressionistic use of the southern landscape. Introduction by Arlin Turner.

Originally published in 1969.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807840399
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	01/01/1969
Series:	Southern Literary Classics Series
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. He wrote extensively about the cultures of Louisiana and is considered the first major Western chronicler of Japanese culture. His many books include La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885), Gombo Zhebes (1885), Chita (1889), and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894). Delia LaBarre is an independent scholar of Lafcadio Hearn and Louisiana culture. Jefferson Humphries (1955-2014) was chair of French studies at Louisiana State University and is author of The Puritan and the Cynic: The Literary Moralist in America and France and editor of Conversations with Reynolds Price, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.

Table of Contents

	Preface	VII
	Introduction	XVII
Part I	The Legend of L'Ile Derniere	3
Part II	Out of the Sea's Strength	34
Part III	The Shadow of the Tide	70