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Sustaining New Orleans : literature, local memory, and the fate of a city / Barbara Eckstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780203955291
  • 9781135403324
  • 9781135403393
  • 9781135403461
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 810.99763 E192
LOC classification:
  • PS267.N49 E27 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The claims for New Orleans exceptionalism -- 2. "Indiscourageable progress" : the decline of the New Orleans streetcar and the rise Of A streetcar named Desire -- 3. Sex and the historic city : a walking tour on the wild side -- 4. Malaise and miasms : Dr. Percy's Moviegoer and public health in New Orleans Environs -- 5. The spectacle between piety and desire : New Orleans's Black Panthers and Ishmael Reed's neo-hoodooism -- 6. The vampires' middle passage : the world of Anne Rice and the promise of New Orleans's coast -- 7. Mapping the spirit region : Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the folk of New Orleans environs.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-274) and index.

1. The claims for New Orleans exceptionalism -- 2. "Indiscourageable progress" : the decline of the New Orleans streetcar and the rise Of A streetcar named Desire -- 3. Sex and the historic city : a walking tour on the wild side -- 4. Malaise and miasms : Dr. Percy's Moviegoer and public health in New Orleans Environs -- 5. The spectacle between piety and desire : New Orleans's Black Panthers and Ishmael Reed's neo-hoodooism -- 6. The vampires' middle passage : the world of Anne Rice and the promise of New Orleans's coast -- 7. Mapping the spirit region : Sister Helen, the Dead Men, and the folk of New Orleans environs.

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