Frenchie: the story of the French-speaking Cajuns of World War II
"As soon as the American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, in June 1944, military commanders called out for "Frenchies" to serve as interpreters with the local population. Frenchie was the name given to the young Cajun soldiers from Louisiana who, like their Acadian an...
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Lafayette, LA
University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | "As soon as the American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, in June 1944, military commanders called out for "Frenchies" to serve as interpreters with the local population. Frenchie was the name given to the young Cajun soldiers from Louisiana who, like their Acadian ancestors, grew up speaking French as their first language. The bilingual Cajuns represented the largest group of French-speaking Americans in the military-and their linguistic abilities proved invaluable to military operations around the world. Ironically, this same generation experienced ethnic discrimination growing up in a state-sanctioned English-only school system that sought to do away with the native French language. The Cajun boys and girls of the World War II generation were often punished for speaking French at school; many grew up ashamed of their language and culture. Society tended to view the Cajun dialect as a handicap, and the people who spoke it, lower class citizens. All of that change during the Second World War when these same Cajuns arrived in French-dominated territories, like North Africa and Europe, where their French-speaking abilities became a vital resource. This had a profound impact of their sense of a Cajun identity. What emerged from this unique wartime experience was a long-lost pride in their heritage. When the military needed bi-lingual interpreters, they called on Frenchie to bridge the language gap"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 244 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781959569107 |
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