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

By: Eckstein, Barbara J [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages)ISBN: 9780203955291; 9781135403324; 9781135403393; 9781135403461Subject(s): American literature -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism | New Orleans (La.) -- Intellectual life | New Orleans (La.) -- In literature | New Orleans (La.) -- CivilizationAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 810.99763 LOC classification: PS267.N49 | E27 2006Online access: Click here to view.
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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