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 essentially 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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- Maillet, Antonine (1971). La Sagouine, 1st ed., Ottawa: Les Editions Lemeac.
- Maillet, Antonine; Luis de Cepedes (1985). La Sagouine, Eng. trans reissue, Toronto: Simon & Pierre. ISBN 0889241856.
