Waggoner, May Gwin
13-022

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Associated name
Waggoner, May Gwin
Title
Waggoner, May Gwin
ID
13-022
Date [inclusive]
1997-2009
Extent
0.5 Cubic feet One document box
Language
English

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Biographical/Historical note

May Gwin Waggoner graduated from Newcomb College in 1963 and later received her Ph.D from Tulane University in French Literature. She worked for the University of Louisiana in Lafayette as the Laborde-Neuner Professor of French and Francophone Studies. Her published works include “Le Plus Beau Du Monde: Completing the Picture of Proprietary Louisiana 1699-1722,” “La Mer Attendra,” and “Le Chant l’arc-en-ciel: Poésies et Proses.”

Honors include the Jasmin d’Argent award for her poetry and the Council of the Development of French in Louisiana’s Honorary Cajun award. She was also inducted into the Acadian Museum’s Living Legends program.

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Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of essays and articles written by May Gwin Waggoner about Louisana French culture. The collection also includes three CDs of the Cajun Folkloric Troupe Renaissance Cadienne, of which Waggoner directed.

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Organization and Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in one box with folders denoting the subjects in alphabetical order. Books are noted here, but they have been placed in the Newcomb Authors collection.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • French Louisiana

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 of 1 

General note

Books that include works of Waggoner in the Newcomb Authors collection:

--“La Légende des Saints.” Feux Follets: Anthologie de la nouvelle louisianaise. Ed. David Cheramie. University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998. 51-56.

--“Louisiana Gumbo / Retention, Creolization, and Innovation in Contemporary Cajun and Zydeco Dance.”

--Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy, Sham, Shake. Ed. Julie Malnig. University of Illinois Press, 2009. 323-336

Renaissance Cadienne CDs:

--La Fleur de la Jeunesse – Traca Records, 1997

--Minuit Cadien: Noël au Pays des Bayous – Traca Records, 2007

--Mon pére aussi Ma mére – Traca Records, 2002

Louisiana French Folklore Project:

--The project consists of a collection of Louisiana French folk songs gathered and arranged by Waggoner.

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