New Orleans: A Literary History by T.R. Johnson (English) Hardcover Book

by T.R. Johnson

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE New Orleans by T.R. Johnson This book offers a comprehensive literary history of New Orleans. It will be of great interest to graduates and scholars working on American Southern literature and African American literature. It will appeal to all working in African American literature and American literature respectively. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher 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. Table of Contents Preface T. R. Johnson; 1. Swamp City Anthony Wilson; 2. Mixed motives: writing for French audiences from colonial New Orleans Erin

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781108498197
• Condition: Fine

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