Chita: A Memory of Last Island (Banner Book) - Hardcover

Lafcadio Hearn

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9781578065585: Chita: A Memory of Last Island (Banner Book)

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ISBN 10: 1578065585 ISBN 13: 9781578065585

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2003

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Chita A Memory of Last Island

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Written during a ten-year stay in New Orleans, Chita was Lafcadio Hearn's first novel. It is filled with beautiful language and emotion, and evokes a true sense of the location and the era.

Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then adopted by a Spanish family on the island. Languages, cultures, and people collide and meld into a nebulous, but distinctive, way of life.

Author Lafcadio Hearn was a man who wrote with perception and flair about the exotic places he was inexplicably drawn to.

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. He is also the author of La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes, Gombo Zhebes, and Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. 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.

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