Evangeline

Description

When most of the men in Acadia are arrested and deported for the crime of being too French in a British colony, they are followed by a determined young woman, Evangeline, seeking her fiance who was among the deportees; yet, she seems always to be one step behind, even after he and the other imprisoned Acadian men are finally released in Louisiana.

Themes

The Expulsion of the Acadians "Le Grand Dérangement" (1755 – 1762), Cultural history, Public memory, Public History, Film history, French and Indian War "Seven Years' War" (1754 – 1763), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882), Epic poems, Oral history, Colonialism, Imperialism, Diaspora