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English in the Margins: Cajun Literacy Communities in Bec Doux et ses amis

In this thesis, I will explore the dual language Cajun-French and English comic strip, Bec Doux et ses amis, in terms of its value within the literacy communities of southwest Louisiana. I will claim that the text subverts the established power dynamics which existed between the American English speakers, the unreconstructed Cajuns, and the bilingual Cajun French and English speaking communities through the use of text placement and trickster figures. INDEX WORDS: Multimodal literacy, Literacy events, Oral traditions, Comics ENGLISH IN THE MARGINS: CAJUN LITERACY COMMUNITES IN BEC DOUX ET SES AMIS