French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana

by Nathalie Dajko

Book Overview

In French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana, Nathalie Dajko introduces readers to the lower Lafourche Basin, Louisiana, where the land, a language, and a way of life are at risk due to climate change, environmental disaster, and coastal erosion. Louisiana French is endangered all around the state, but in the lower Lafourche Basin the shift to English is accompanied by the equally rapid disappearance of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496830938
• ISBN13: 9781496830937
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"