Sustaining New Orleans Literature, local memory, and the fate of a city
This book pursues two meanings of the phrase, "sustaining New Orleans." One is the perpetuation of the images and ideas and tales of New Orleans sustained in public memory--local and not--through a range of activities and media, widely read literature notable among them. The other referenc...
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2006.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745304406719 |
Table of Contents:
- The claims for New Orleans exceptionalism
- "Indiscourageable progress": the decline of the New Orleans streetcar and the rise of a streetcar named Desire
- Sex and the historic city: a walking tour on the wild side
- Malaise and miasms: Dr. Percy and the public health of New Orleans Environs
- The spectacle between piety and desire: New Orleans Black Panther Party and Ishamel Reed's neo-hoodooism
- The vampires' middle passage: the world of Anne Rice and the promise of New Orleans's coast
- Mapping the spirit region: Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the folk of New Orleans environs.
