@article{Thomas_2022, title={Disrupting the Archives and Loosening the Evangeline Knot: Finding an Undercurrent in Antoine-J. Léger’s Elle et lui and Une fleur d’Acadie}, volume={50}, url={https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/32955}, abstractNote={<p>For marginalized francophone communities who left little written record in the colonial<br>archives, 20th-century literature confronts absences and silences resulting from imperial<br>archival dominance and popular narratives. This article mobilizes Acadian author Antoine-J.<br>Léger’s novels Elle et lui : tragique idylle du peuple acadien (1940) and Une fleur d’Acadie :<br>un épisode du grand dérangement (1946) to consider how Acadian writers began challenging<br>the stability of archival records and subverting the dominance of the version of events<br>imagined by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847).</p>}, number={2}, journal={Acadiensis}, author={Thomas, Leanna}, year={2022}, month={Jul.}, pages={184–206} }