'Becoming-Cajun'

Journal/Book: Cult Stud. 2000; 14: 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4Ee, England. Routledge. 147-176.

Abstract: This essay is a reflection on the circumstances that led me to a particular research project, on Cajun dance and music spaces, and also on the project's mutations through subsequent phases of development. Above all, this essay attempts to take stock of the difficulties - personal, scholarly, and theoretical - as well as the personal choices that have gone into developing an ongoing scholarly project. While I indicate the importance of the experiences of personal pleasure that originally inspired my research, I also show how the personal and the pleasurable often necessarily encounter tensions and even certain kinds of conflict when linked to a 'disciplinary' domain. This essay therefore traces a particular example of how 'cultural studies travels' both geographically within a life and disciplinarily within something that has come to be known as 'French cultural studies'.

Note: Review Stivale CJ, Wayne State Univ, Dept Romance Languages & Literatures, Detroit,MI 48202 USA

Keyword(s): French cultural studies; Cajun music; Cajun dance; Cajun studies; authenticity; identity; FRENCH

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