Steeped in a nationalist ideology from the 19th century, early Acadian novels, as they emerged from the 1920s on, were regularly characterized by a historical and ethnographic discourse. Antoine-J. Léger’s Elle et Lui (1940) is a prime example of this tradition, which still leaves its mark on Antonine Maillet’s Pointe-aux-Coques (1958). In this much more contemporary story, however, Maillet’s novel also offers the first confident literarization of Acadian language and themes.