388. Juliane Braun, part 1

388. Part 1 of our interview with Juliane Braun about her new book, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city’s early years, French-speaking residents used the theatre to assert their political, economic, and cultural sovereignty in the face of growing Anglo-American dominance.

Beyond local stages, the francophone struggle for cultural survival connected people and places in the early United States, across the American hemisphere, and in the Atlantic world. Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. Juliane Braun draws on the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of documents from both sides of the Atlantic, to explore the ways in which theatre and drama shaped debates about ethnic identity and transnational belonging in the city. Francophone identity united citizens of different social and racial backgrounds, and debates about political representation, slavery, and territorial expansion often played out on stage.

1. This week in Louisiana history. October 24, 1827. Gov. Henry S. Thibodaux died in office from what is believed to be an abscessed liver.
2. This week in New Orleans history. Mitch Landreu was elected as State Representative, 90th Representative District on October 24, 1987.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Yellow Rails and Rice Birding Festival
   
   October 29th, 2020 - November 1st, 2020

   8:00 am - 5:00 pm
   Jeff Davis Parish

   100 Rue de l'Acadie

   Jennings, LA 70546
   337-821-5521
   Website
   The Yellow Rails & Rice Festival is designed with fun in mind, and the primary goals are to provide participants with a unique venue to see Yellow Rails and, at the same time, bring birders and farmers together to emphasize the value to birds of the area’s “Working wetlands.”
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Dat Funk Brass Band next to Café du Monde.

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