Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City
Autor Barbara Ecksteinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 oct 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415947831
ISBN-10: 0415947839
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 14 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415947839
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 14 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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 and the Public Health of New Orleans Environs 5. The Spectacle between Piety and Desire: New Orleans Black Panther Party and Ishamel 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
Notă biografică
Barbara Eckstein is Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on urban planning and sustainability for MIT Press. She published her first book with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1990.
Descriere
This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice.