Binding: Hardcover
Description: The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town Royal St. Claude Esplanade Basin and St. Charles to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations whether reflected through questions of masquerade dreams of escape the innocence of children or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
Title: New Orleans A Writer's City
Author(s): Johnson T. R. (Tulane University Louisiana)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781316512067
Pages: 314 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 3/2/2023
Series: Imagining Cities
Category: Literary Reference Works