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New Orleans Edited by T Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information NEW ORLEANS New Orleans is an indispensable element of America’s national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. This book provides detailed discussions of all of the most significant writing that this city has ever inspired – from its origins in a flood-prone swamp to the rise of a Creole culture at the edges of the European empires; from its emergence as a cosmo- politan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchil- dren of the enslaved conjured a new kind of music that became America’s greatest gift to the world; from the mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Walker Percy to the realms of folklore, hip-hop, vampire fiction, and the Asian and Latinx archives. is a professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University. He has written books about Lacanian psychoanalysis, the teaching of writing, and about prose style. He has also taught at Boston University and the University of Louisville. For the last two decades, he has lived near the Mississippi River in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans and hosted a contemporary jazz radio program. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information NEW ORLEANS A Literary History T. R. JOHNSON Tulane University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge , United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, th Floor, New York, , USA Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, , Australia –, rd Floor, Plot , Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – , India Anson Road, #–/, Singapore Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ : ./ © T. R. Johnson This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd., Padstow Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data : Johnson, T. R., - editor of compilation. : New Orleans : a literary history / edited by T.R. Johnson, Tulane University. : Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, . | Includes bibliographical references and index. : | (hardback : alk. paper) : : American literature–Louisiana–New Orleans–History and criticism. | New Orleans (La.)–In literature. | Literature and society–Louisiana–New Orleans–History. | New Orleans (La.)–Intellectual life. : . | ./–dc LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ ---- Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information For all New Orleanians, whether here now, long gone, or yet to come © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Contributors page x Preface xvii Acknowledgments xx Swamp City Anthony Wilson Mixed Motives: Writing for French Audiences from Colonial New Orleans Erin Greenwald “As I Have Seen and Known It”: Ex-Slave Autobiographers and the New Orleans Slave Market Calvin Schermerhorn What New Orleans Meant to Walt Whitman Ed Folsom Coloring Sex, Love, and Desire in Creole New Orleans’s Long Nineteenth Century Jarrod Hayes The White Creole Tradition: Alfred Mercier, Charles Gayarré, Adrien Rouquette, and Grace King Rien Fertel The Civil War’s Literary Aftershocks: George Washington Cable Matthew Paul Smith Illusion and Disillusion: The Making of Lafcadio Hearn S. Frederick Starr vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information viii Contents Local Color, Social Problems, and the Living Dead in the Late- Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar Nelson Tara T. Green Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, and the Predicament of the Intellectual Woman in New Orleans Emily Toth Converging Americas: New Orleans in Spanish-Language and Latina/o/x Literary Culture Kirsten Silva Gruesz A Jazz Origin Myth: Bras-Coupé in History, Folklore, and Literature Bryan Wagner “Stepping Out” of the Storyville Frame: Recent Literary Representations of the New Orleans Red-Light District Milena Marinkova Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art Daniel Stein New Orleans, Modernism, and The Double Dealer, – Thomas Bonner, Jr. “Because What Else Could He Have Hoped to Find in New Orleans, If Not the Truth”: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Thadious Davis “The Place I Was Made For”: Tennessee Williams in New Orleans Henry I. Schvey A Civil Rights–Era Novel of the American Civil War: Robert Penn Warren’s Band of Angels William Bedford Clark How to Survive the Best Environments: Narrating Protean Place in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer Richmond M. Eustis, Jr. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information Contents ix Tom Dent and the Development of Black Literature in New Orleans Kalamu ya Salaam The Gothic Tradition in New Orleans Taylor Hagood A Flaneur in the French Quarter and Beyond: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces Cory MacLauchlin Literary Fiction by New Orleans Women, –: Shirley Ann Grau, Ellen Gilchrist, Sheila Bosworth, and Valerie Martin Monica Carol Miller Asian American New Orleans Marguerite Nguyen New Orleans Rap and Bounce: Recovering and Archiving an Expressive Tradition Holly Hobbs The Literature of Hurricane Katrina Kevin Rabalais Swan Song? T. R. Johnson Index © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information Contributors , ., Professor Emeritus at Xavier University of Louisiana, has recently written Parterre: New and Collected Poetry and Prose and co-edited William Spratling and William Faulkner’s Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles. His books include The Kate Chopin Companion with Chopin’s Translations of French Fiction and William Faulkner: The William B. Wisdom Collection. Editor Emeritus of Xavier Review and its press, he has published articles in academic journals on American literature, including the Double Dealer, and book reviews in the New Orleans Times Picayune. serves as Professor of English at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on American literature and served as General Editor of the six-volume Robert Penn Warren Correspondence Project. , a New Orleans native, is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Gender, and Region; Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses; Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled; and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context. . , ., is an assistant professor of English, Spanish, and comparative literature at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He has also taught at the University of Jordan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar. He also is an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School. He teaches and publishes most often in the fields of world literature and literature and the environment. His work has appeared in Salon.com and elsewhere. x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49819-7 — New Orleans Edited by T. R. Johnson Frontmatter More Information List of Contributors xi has published in Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, and numerous other publications. Hurricane Katrina exiled him to New York City, where he began to write about food, but he returned not long ago to his native New Orleans to complete a doctorate in History
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