{"product_id":"sunset-limited-an-autobiography-of-creole-hardback-9780807183656","title":"Sunset Limited; An Autobiography of Creole (Hardback) 9780807183656","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSunset Limited\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Autobiography of Creole\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWendy A. Gaudin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807183656\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 25 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSunset Limited\u003c\/i\u003e offers a formidable exploration of Creole identity within the context of the French colonial world. Blending memoir, archival research, cultural analysis, and poetry, Wendy A. Gaudin plumbs the complex lives of those shaped by the multifaceted violence of empire. Revealing the enduring consequences on Creole lives, she challenges dominant colonial narratives, intricately capturing stories long suppressed.\" - Kim Marie Vaz-Deville, author of \u003ci\u003eThe \"Baby Dolls\": Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Just as Creole is neither Black nor white, and Louisiana is not quite northern or southern, \u003ci\u003eSunset Limited\u003c\/i\u003e is neither history nor memoir—but something much more. As deeply personal as it is deeply researched, Wendy Gaudin's work is a loving, lyrical hymn to mixedness in a world where so many bodies are broken upon the altar of either-or. The Creole cartoonist George Herriman, whose family once took its own Louisiana-to-California sunset ride, has written that 'Language is that we may misunderstand each other.' In this marvelous book, Wendy Gaudin returns language to the service of understanding.\" - Michael Tisserand, author of \u003ci\u003eKRAZY: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaped by centuries of migration, enslavement, freedom, colonization, and cultural mixture, Louisiana Creole identity is often simplified or misunderstood to fit into today's ideas about race and nationality. In \u003ci\u003eSunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, \u003c\/i\u003eWendy A. Gaudin fearlessly takes on the many meanings of Creole in a lyrical exploration of how this multilayered, transnational, bilingual, and racially expansive history of New Orleans and Louisiana has manifested itself in her own diasporic Creole family. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tWhen Gaudin's Creole grandparents boarded the Sunset Limited train in Jim Crow–era New Orleans, they imagined new lives for themselves in the city of Los Angeles. The Sunset Limited produced a twentieth-century Creole community on the West Coast, whose members ate the traditional foods of south Louisiana, gathered in one another's homes and churches, spoke in the distinctive dialects of the Gulf Coast, and taught their children to respect their unique, blended ancestry and their centuries-long history. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tAs an adult, yearning to know more about her Creole background, Gaudin returned to Louisiana. There, she began to trace her Creole ancestors back to the time before the Civil War, confronting hard truths about the past her grandparents left behind. Revisiting the lands of her ancestors, diving into the archival record, interviewing those who remained in New Orleans, and remembering the stories told to her by her elders, Gaudin sought answers to questions asked by many whose lives are shaped by migration: Why did her people leave their ancestral home? What did they lose in the leaving, and what did they gain? \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSunset Limited \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the boundaries of what it means to be Creole, how migration shaped Gaudin's family and her community, and how this history is remembered and told. Incorporating historical narrative, oral history, biomythography, historiography, cultural geography, autoethnography, and poetry, \u003ci\u003eSunset Limited\u003c\/i\u003e is as multidimensional and dynamic as Louisiana Creoles themselves. Weaving together the stories of her mixed-race elders, the artifacts of her ancestors, and memories of her California childhood, Gaudin argues that history is not a cold, linear record of the past. Rather, it is a deeply felt understanding of how we are shaped by the movements of our ancestors, and of our rich and ever-changing relationships with those who came before us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551798063384,"sku":"9780807183656","price":23.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sunset-limited-an-autobiography-of-creole-hardback-9780807183656","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}