New Orleans

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Books
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18.99
book_author_name: 
T. R. Johnson
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
published_date: 
08/06/2023
isbn: 
9781108705660
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Literature: history & criticism
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T. R. Johnson|Paperback|Cambridge University Press|08/06/2023
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9781108705660
Book Description: 
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 cosmopolitan, hemispheric crossroads and a primary hub of the slave trade to the days when, in its red light district, the children and grandchildren 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 Latin American archives.

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