Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City / Edition 1

by Barbara Eckstein

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415947831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/27/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of 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 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