Revisiting Evangeline: history, myth, literature, cinema and theater
Found in my Franco-American stacks, I came across Jeffrey Houdlette’s 2004, essay titled “The Cajun Connection”. His essay reminded me, once again, about how important and enduring a metaphor the fictional character of Evangeline is for representing Acadian history. In a mythical way, Evangeline is the symbolic ancestor related to all people of Acadian heritage. […]