La Sagouine

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La Sagouine is a novel written by New Brunswick author Antonine Maillet tells the story of la Sagouine, an Acadian washerwoman from rural New Brunswick. The novel is essentialy a collection of monologues, written in Chiac, a mixture of the French and English languages which is commonly spoken by Acadians. At the time of its publication in 1971, the language that the novel was written in was closer to French. It has since been translated into English by Luis de Céspedes.

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