Sustaining New Orleans
Subtitle: literature, local memory, and the fate of a city
By: Barbara Eckstein.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415947824; 9780415947831
Subjects: American literature -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism.; New Orleans (La.) -- Intellectual life.; New Orleans (La.) -- In literature.; New Orleans (La.) -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: The claims for New Orleans exceptionalism; title: "Indiscourageable progress": the decline of the New Orleans streetcar and the rise of a streetcar named Desire; title: Sex and the historic city: a walking tour on the wild side; title: Malaise and miasms: Dr. Percy and the public health of New Orleans Environs; title: The spectacle between piety and desire: New Orleans Black Panther Party and Ishamel Reed's neo-hoodooism; title: The vampires' middle passage: the world of Anne Rice and the promise of New Orleans's coast; title: Mapping the spirit region: Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the folk of New Orleans environs.