Hartnell After Katrina

Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6419-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartnell, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Is This America?”

Part I: American Time

1. New Orleans and Empire: Legacies from the “Age of Revolution”

2. New Orleans and Americanization: “Progress,” “Decline,” and Tourism in the Twentieth Century

Part II: Katrina Time

3. Documenting Katrina: The Return of the “Real”

4. Resisting Katrina: The Right to Return

Part III: New Orleans Time

5. New Orleans and Water: Remapping Ecologies of the Gulf South

6. New Orleans and the Nation: Legacies from the Future

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Hartnell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama.